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Whoso hath eyes to see, let him see; seeing, 
he shall 'perceive; 'perceiving, he shall understand; 
understanding, he shall know the mysteries. Let 
him who hath understanding 'ponder well this 
symbol, for herein are contained the Secrets of the 
Kingdom; much Gold and Silver is here, yea, and 
Quicksilver, both for this world and for the world 
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PREFACE. 



Originally a course of preliminary instruction for Rosicru- 
cian novices, these lessons in Rosicrucian symbology have 
been brought together in their present form with the hope that 
they may be of wider service and reach a greater audience 
than can be brought together within the confines of a class 
room. The purpose of the book is to give the student an 
accurate understanding of the rudiments of geometrical sym- 
bology and a knowledge of those essential principles of con- 
structing symbolical figures which, used and applied intelli- 
gently, may furnish the means wherewith to read and interpret 
some of the ancient wisdom of our fathers, ''necessarily written 
m symbols to secure them from the persecution of the hier- 
archy of the Inquisition/' 

To the printed page there has been committed here much 
that IS not readily available to the earnest searcher after truth, 
except thru the slow process of word of mouth instruction. 
Notwithstanding, it is not a book for the sensation seeker or the 
idly curious. Those who expect a revelation of some sort, or 
at the very least a key to the hidden mysteries, will search m 
vain. Herein are no formulae for working miracles, but only a 
simple exposition of ancient truths — how deep and significant, 
depends entirely upon the reader. ''Cast off the Veile that is 
before your faces, and you shall bee no more blind.' 

The publication of this book is authorized and approved 
by the sovereign body of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood in Amer- 
ica. 

Aanmes 



rosicrucian 

Symbology 



INTRODUCTION. 

A symbol is aenned as 'a sign by w^hicli one knows a 
thing, — an arbitrary or other conventional mark, a scientific 
abbreviation/' 

Symbology is the art of representing by symbols. (Gr. 
symbolon, from symballem — sym, together, ballem, to throw.) 

It may be comprehended under two broad general classifi- 
cations— EXOTjB/J/C and ESOTERIC, 

Exoteric symbology includes the signs, figures, and abbre- 
viations used to express terms in mathematics, chemistry ♦ 
pharmacy, weights and measures, and meteorology. 

Esoteric symbology applies to the symbolical expression of 
occult spiritual and philosophical truths, and may be divided 
into four departments or sections : 

1 Geometrical or Constructive. 

2 Natural and Totemic. 

3 Phallic. 

4 Astronomical and Astrological. 

Geometrical symbology is the simplest, most ancient, and 
at the same time most efficient type ever known or used. It 
utilizes the simplest geometrical forms, many of which were 
undoubtedly the first attempts at the pictorial expression of 
thought and idea forms by the progenitors of the human 
species, incalculable ages ago. 

Geometrical symbology also furnishes to the Rosicrucian 
and especially to the Freemason a tangible, demonstrable 
reason for the veneration he has been taught to cherish for 
Geometry as the primal and Divine Science. 



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In its simple combinations it is to the student of the C< 
Science and Wisdom what the plans of the architect are to the 
master workmen. To the true student of the highest spiritual 
wisdom, geometrical symbology becomes the actual plan of the 
Great Architect of the Universe, given to the Master Workmen 
in human embodiments. 

The second section or department of Esoteric symbology 
IS designated the ''Natural.'' It is so called from its utilization 
of natural forms for the expression of the ideas to be incul- 
cated. Thus, for ages the Serpent has been used by the 
orientals to express wisdom, just as the Owl is used for the 
same purpose among the occidental or western races. The 
Dove represents peace and harmlessness ; the Fox, cunning : 
the Lamb, innocence ; the Lion, strength; and the Bull, fecund- 
ity. Many other instances might be mentioned which lack of 
space forbids and familiarity to readers renders unnecessary. 

The third division is called the ""Phallic'' and comprehends 
the enormous number of symbols — mineral, vegetable, animal 
and human — used by the ancients to typify the human organs 
of generation, held by them in high veneration as the source 
of human physical life, and even deified during the long ages 
of sex worship. Many vestiges and persistencies of this 
worship still remain, actively in the far East, and symbolically 
in our own land at the present day. 

The symbols used in this division include the stone towers 
and piles, conical and pyramidal, scattered all over the surface 
of the globe and venerated by the most aboriginal tribes ; cer- 
tain forms of vegetable life well known for their reproductive 
vigor and resemblance to the human generative organs ; and 
animal types celebrated for the same reason. The human 
reproductive organs have been faithfully reproduced and em- 
ployed as objects of votive worship, temple decoration, and 
tribal and communal custom in every land, and have been 
noted by travelers on bas-reliefs, monuments, papyri, and 
parchment the world over. 

In professedly Christian lands the Cross, one of the chief 
phallic symbols, is the most popular and prominent vestige of 
ancient sexual or phallic worship, while the Fleur-de-lis, the 
Rosette, and the Asparagus, are hardly less conspicuous. 

The symbols of the Ox, the Lion, the Eagle, and the Man, 
used in mural and ecclesiastical art to represent the writers 
of the four canonical Gospels, have a similar significance ; and 
the use of the conical and pyramidal church towers even to the 
present day perpetuates the cromlechs and other sex persisten- 
cies on a monumental scale. 



The fourth section, ^^Astronomical and Astrological'' sym- 
bology may be considered as dual in its character, as it com- 
prises all the forms of symbology mentioned. 

Thus Libra, for instance, is symbolized by the Scales, or 
Balance, :^ a natural symbol ; Gemini by 11 , the double 

niasculine symbol; Taurus by b , a fanciful and figurative 
representation of the Bull, and Aries by , a representation 

of the horns and general configuration of the head of the Ram. 
Sagittarius is represented by the arrow of the Archer / ; Aqua- 
rius, the Waterman, by the Waves ^ . 

The purpose of all symbology has its origin m something 
more than the desire for brevity — SECRECY. 

The beginning of symbology was co-incident with the ex- 
pression of thot forms and ideas m hieroglyphics, and is there- 
fore of equal antiquity. It is well known to students of all 
occult schools that the religions of all ancient peoples were 
both exoteric and esoteric. 

Certain truths, easily assimilated, were given to the people 
as a whole. These truths were often expresst by a simple and 
natural symbology, easy of comprehension and remembrance. 
Higher truths beyond the intellect of the masses were con- 
cealed by the ancient priesthoods, for preservation ''until the 
f/isdom of future generations'' should render their exposition 
and revelation desirable and justifiable. 

Communication of these concealed truths, therefore, was 
carried on from one generation of spiritual custodians to an- 
other by means of hieratic writings, which could be read in a 
dual manner. Read by the uninitiated they conveyed one sim- 
ple, logical meaning. In the hands of initiates, however, they 
conveyed a vastly higher, deeper, and graver interpretation. 
These hieratic writings employed the geometrical or construc- 
tive symbology very largely in their purpose of secret preser- 
vation. 

In later ages when Christian fanaticism, both Catholic and 
Protestant, sought to stamp out as heresy all spiritual knowl- 
edge except such as bore the imprimatur of Holy Church or 
(Ecumenical Council, the Initiates still used the geometrical 
symbology in the communication of spiritual truths from one 
to the other. 

Thiis many symbolical forms have come down to us, some 
of which we are able to read correctly and promulgate widely 
in this age of liberal thot, when thinkers have cast off ecclesi- 
asticism and dare not only to THINK but to ACT in accordance 
with the promptings of unfettered intellects. 



Some of the symbolism still remains obscure, but at the 
proper time undoubtedly will reveal to us its precious treasure 
of truth and wisdom as we may qualify to receive it. 

The present work on Rosicrucian Symbologfy does not 
assume to cover in one volume the entire field of any depart- 
ment of symbology. It takes up the first section — Geometrical 
Symbology — and gives a complete exposition of the develop- 
ment of a sublime spiritual and cosmic truth expanded from 
the starting point of all symbology, the simple ^o7nt. By fol- 
lowing its processes of development with care and understand- 
ing, the student should become able to translate correctly 
much of the obscure and complex symbology he will find in 
the occult writings of the ancients, the Alchemists, the lUu- 
minati, and the mediaeval thinkers. 




CHAPTER I. 




Our study of geometrical symbology will require as par- 
allel reading, the opening chapter of the Gospel ascribed to 
lOANNES or John. . 

Starting from a Point, it will show the development, ampli- 
fication and completion of the great cosmic scheme or plan, as 
apotheosized in the Macrocosm or Grand Man of the Universe, 
and reflected in the Microcosm or Man — the differentiated 
Spirit of God in human embodiments. The narrative so far as 
possible will be descriptive and explanatory. 

In John's Gospel we read : '*In the beginning 
was the Word. ' The ''WORD'' we represent in 
Fig. 1 by a dot, or point, which we must remember 
IS the common basis of all symbolical delineation. 

In Rosicrucian concepts the WORD repre- 
sented by the dot or point, is the initial existent 
condition in CHAOS. It is known variously as 

the WORD, VERBUM or LOGOS, THE CREATIVE POWER 

or GREAT CENTRAL FLAME. In other aspects it is known 
under pseudonyms which need not here concern us. As the 
ABSOLUTE it IS the Source of heat, light, sound, power — 
FORCE. It is the motif of the Masonic motto, ''Ordo ab Chao" 
and the Rosicrucian motto, ''Omnia ab uno' — All from ONE. 

The point, expanded from its periphery out- 
ward, gives us in Fig. 2 the Circle, considered as 
a sphere, not as a flat plane or hollow outline. 
Symbolically it indicates Totality, Eternity, Com- 
pletion, Comprehension. The student will do well 
to remember that in studying geometrical sym- 
bology he is following the Deific and Cosmic 
Creative Process. This remembrance will make it apparent, 
especially to members of the Masonic and Rosicrucian Fra- 
ternities, why God or Deity is comprehended as the Great 
Geometrician of the Universe. Geometry has ever been held 
in highest esteem, Pythagoras and other notable teachers 
amongst the ancients requiring the mastery of the science 
tefore admitting postulants as actual pupils in their academies. 





Tlie whole scheme of creation is scientific and geometrical, 
and therefore best and most truly expresst in that form of 
symbologfy. 

In academic geometry a point is defined as 
theoretically position in space, without dimension. 
It may be any position m space. This concept 
accurately expresses the idea of Deity. Therefore, 
in Fig. 3 we show our sphere with the dot m the 
center, pictorially representing our theoretical con- 
cept of position in space. By analogy this figure 
represents the comprehension and inclusion of all creative 
FORCES: all forms of life, visible and invisible, in one com- 
plete whole, or unit, with the center as the ESSENCE, the 

UNO, WORD, or VERBUM. 

Geometrically, a circle is conceived of as an infinite num- 
ber of points, equidistant from one central point, therefore all 
united again express Deity. As the whole sphere, therefore, 
is a complete expression of Deity in itself, we find that not 
only ''in the beginning was the Word'' but — 

''The Word was whk God, and the Word WAS God." 

In Fig. 4 we amplify the aspects of Deity ; "a'' 
represents our sphere divided into upper and lower 
halves. The upper half represents the invisible 
spiritual aspect from which is derived both ancient 
and modern conceptions of heaven and the em- 
pyrean. The lower half represents that aspect of 
Deity in the visible world of Creation, and by its 
position symbolizes Dense, or Chemical, Matter. The two 
halves united also represent Spirit and Matter. In "f we 
note the lower half divided, which signifies the division of 
Matter into both visible and invisible, animate and inanimate, 
organic and inorganic ; "c'' shows the upper half divided, which 
represents Spirit divided into the (psychically) visible and 
invisible (higher) planes. 

All these divisions united in one figure give us 
(m Fig. 5) the Cross within the Circle or Sphere. 
It indicates symbolically the inclusion of all life, 
animate and inanimate, within what we call Deity ; 
also the Crossifixion of the Divine Spirit of God. 
upon Matter, both visible and invisible. 



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Fig. 6 shows us the three cosmic aspects of 
the Cross apart from the Circle ; '*a" is called the 
Cross of Ascension, representing the ascension of 
the higfher spiritual principles above the plane 
which divides Spirit from Matter as commonly 
expresst; *'f the Cross in its entirety, the union 
of all principles. Spirit and Matter, Male and 
Female. It further indicates life, but static — in the body of 
God, inert, potent, but not operative ; ""c"' is sometimes known 
as the **Tau'' Cross and signifies the completion of the World 
of Matter in and by itself. 

In Fig. 7 we see the complete Cross with each 
arm turned at right angles to the vane thus formed. 
Turned to the LEFT they symbolize INVOLU- 
TION or the Descent of Divine Spirit into Matter. 
This symbol is extremely ancient. Under the 
name of the ^'Swastika'' it has been used in art 
and commerce as the emblem of good luck, merely 
from a fanciful tradition always associated with it. To the 
Norse races it was known as the 'Tlammer of Thor' and to 
the earlier oriental races as the ''Shem-Hammephorash. 
Long and learned articles have been written about the symbol, 
dealing for the most part with its antiquity. Its esoteric sig- 
r '^finance and origin, however, is as stated above. In passing 
it may be worthy of note that many examples of this symbol 
have been found by Dr. Schliemann on the site of ancient Troy. 
In view of the remarks just made, it might also be well to 
emphasize the fact that true symbology has nothing to do with 
the various developments and changes made from an original 
type of symbol by art. The Cross is known under many forms 
which have their origin solely in art, not in symbology. The 
Maltese, Latin, Greek, Teutonic, and Byzantine Crosses are 
the work of their contemporary artists and have no origin in 
symbology. 



In Fig. 8 the arms are turned to the right, 
which in our system indicates EVOLUTION, the 
opposite of Involution ; the ASCENT OF SPIRIT 

OUT OF DENSE MATTER. 



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Our next figure, Number 9, gives us a further 
formation. The extension of the arms of our 
cross to their approximate opposite points fur- 
nishes us with a figure whose sides and angles 
shall be perfectly equal. Considering either arm 
of the cross as the major axis, we note that the 
construction of the square devolves upon two 
right angle triangles. 

In Fig. 10 these triangles are shown separate 
and reversed, for greater clarity. The presence 
of the right angle triangles in our figure is of im- 
portance symbolically, for the right angle triangle 
had been used from remote times to symbolize 
Spirit and Matter in their inclusiveness. When 
shown with the point downwards, such an angle 
indicates Matter or Earth ; reversed, with the 
point upwards, the angle signifies Spirit or the 
Celestial. These angles are not complete as a triangle, 

however, until connected with their proper base line. 

One of the principal theorems of Rosicrucian philosophy is 
that of the basic property of the function of mind. It will be 
remembered by students that mind forms the basis or focus 
thru which the Ego (and its higher spiritual attributes) func- 
tions in the lower vehicles — the astral, etheric and physical 
bodies. Mind, then, we regard as a base, and as a base it will 
be used m all symbology. 

Connecting, in Fig. 11, the two extremes of 
our angles with the basic line of Mind, we have 
our triangles complete, each a tetra, symbolizing 
the Spiritual and the Material, with Mind as the 
connecting link equally potent in the spiritual and 
material worlds. 

Rendering our angles strictly impersonal for 
a while by eliminating the basic principle of Mind, 
we note in Fig. 12 the arrangement whereby the 
arms of the lower angle are above the arms of the 
upper. It is the well-known figure of the square 
and compasses. In this figure the two ends of the 
spiritual right angle below the ends of its material 
counterpart indicate the descent of Spirit into 
Matter and its complete submergence in the latter. It signifies 
the apparent temporary triumph of Matter over Spirit. 







In Fig. 13 we have "more light," for one arm 
IS above the square ; in other words, one arm of 
our spiritual right angle is over the corresponding 
arm of the material right angle, indicating the 
gradual emergence of Spirit from Matter. 

Fig. 14 symbolizes the triumph of Spirit over 
Matter, for here both ends of the spiritual right 
angle are over both ends or arms of the material 
right angle. Not only has "further light'' been 
given, but in the triumph of Spirit over Matter 
(or the flesh) "all the light that can be conferred'' 
on a "master " has been awarded the proficient 
neophyte. This symbol not only indicates the 
triumph of Spirit, but its resurrection, ascent, and 
dominion over all material conditions. 

Connecting the ends of our right angles again 
with the link or base of Mind and placing the 
centers of the triangles thus formed concentric, 
the triangles are now perfectly balanced, giving 
us the six-pointed star or symbol of the equilibrium 
of Spirit and Matter, Fig. 15. This is the peculi- 
arly appropriate symbol of the Hebrew faith which 
for ages has maintained the existence of but ONE God, per- 
fectly expresst in both the spiritual and material worlds. 

Continuing our process of development, we enclose our six- 
pointed star in the original sphere (indicated by 
the circle) which in its Deific aspect also signifies 
Infinity, and we symbolize the Harmony or At- 
One-Ment of the Spirit that descended into 
Matter, and the Body now purified and arisen, 
with Divinity or the Over-Soul. (Fig. 16.) 

We haTe seen that the Circle represents Deity, 
and the Cross the union of the male and female 
principle — re-creation or procreation. The two 
together formed the Egyptian Crux Ansata or 
symbol of life. 

This symbol, therefore, placed within our six- 
pointed star and sphere, symbolizes immortality 
as the direct result of regeneration. (Fig. 17.) 







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Adapting a ""Nature' symbol and translorming 
for the moment our Circle into tke Serpent, we 
symbolize in Fig. 18 the Crown of Equilibrium, 
and the return of Matter to its source in Spirit. 
(''Be ye wise as serpents/') 

In Fig. 19 we have a more complex form. The 
Shem-Hammephorash within a Circle, placed be- 
tween the serpent's mouth and tail, indicate the 
progeny of the creative egg from the cosmic womb 
returning to its source, and regeneration thru 
conquest of Animal Desire or Sense. 

The triangle or tetragrammaton in its plain 
form IS comprehended in Rosicrucian philosophy 
as Heat, Light, and Flame. (Fig. 20.) It is quite 
true that m modern usage it has been adopted by 
religious and some esoteric societies to designate 
''body, soul, and spirit ' or "body, mind, and 
spirit." We are treating here, however, only of 
the original significance given it in the ancient 
rituals and philosophies. 

The Square, Fig. 21, produced by squaring the 
Cross, IS regarded as the sum of the four elements 
— Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. Each component 
square, therefore, will be seen to have equal rela- 
tive value, and such the Rosicrucian philosophy 
teaches to be the case in the cosmic activities 
which gives us our material universe. 

These two principal figures, the triangle and 
the square, express further important truths when 
combined. 

In Fig. 22 the triangle is shown above the 
square. It indicates the status and position of 
Spirit not yet descended into Matter, the first 
meditation of the neophyte who aspires to become 
a Master Workman, the Entered Apprentice, so 
to speak. 

In Fig. 23 we attempt to show diagrammatic- 
ally one part of the square taken up into the tri- 
angle. It signifies the ascent of Matter into Spirit, 
and the equal descent of Spirit into Matter. Oc- 
cupying a position as it were of midway develop- 
ment, the neophyte who contemplates this problem 
becomes a Fellow Craftsman. 



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Fig. 24 sKows the triangle and square com- 
pletely merged, showing the ascent of Matter into 
Spirit and the descent of Spirit into Matter, or 
Involution and Evolution in equilibrium. It is the 
sign of Mastership. This is proven by the Te- 
traktys. (Fig. 25.) 

In this figure we find our tetragrammaton di- 
vided into nine equal triarigles, the three crowning 
units expressing the sacred name of Deity accord- 
ing to the Hebrew, Yod He Vau He. The heavy 
black lines show the j>ro'jection of this sacred 
name of Deity isometrically into the cube or sym- 
bol of visible expression and manifestation. 

Fig. 26 shows us the analysis of this cube, ex- 
panded into the Cross, expressive of triumph over 
Matter, after Matter has ascended into Spirit and 
Evolution on the Physical and Chemical Planes is 
at an end. 

Our tetragrammaton in the form known as the 
Lesser Tetraktys is shown in Fig. 27 and is com- 
posed of the ten yods or sixteen numbers, giving 
us the theosophical sum of all Spirit according to 
the system of Pythagoras. 



Our square squared, gives us the sixteen 
squares of complete Matter, the Pythagorean 
proof of Cosmic Evolution. (Fig. 28.) 



Fig. 29 IS known as the Greater Tetraktys and 
contains thirty-six points or yods, in six lines, num- 
bering one, three, five, seven, nine, and eleven. 
This number doubled gives us seventy-two. This, 
m its visible and invisible aspect, gives us one 
hundred and forty-four, the root of the decimal 
one hundred and forty-four thousand, relating to 
the root races it is the purpose and destiny of this 
planet to bring thru evolutionary expression. 

Sixteen, therefore, is the first Rosicrucian sacred 
number. One hundred and forty-four thousand is the 

second sacred number. 



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CHAPTER II. 



Referring back to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, (a) and 5, it will be 
noted tbat we began our study with tke point, or theoretical 
concept oi position m space as our basis oi departure, illustra- 
tive of the opening sentence in John's Gospel, ''In the begin- 
ning was the WORD.'' 

From the point we evolved the circle, as the expansion or 
universal projection of the point outwardly, or the concept of 
its interior removed and the periphery expanded. This was 
in signification of the continuation of the opening sentence 
from John's Gospel, ''And the WORD was WITH GOD." 

This expansion produces what is known in Rosicrucian 
verbiage and symbology as the FIRST PROJECTION. 

Following this same sentence from John's Gospel we placed 
the point visibly withm the circle thus created, illustrating the 
words, "And tKe WORD WAS GOD." 

This action is known to Rosicrucian neophytes as the 

SECOND PROJECTION. 

Our next act was to expand the point laterally in every 
direction on one plane, thus dividing our circle or sphere, and 
symbolizing the First Creative Act, which resulted m the cosmic 
condition or states of Spirit and Matter as thus distinguished. 
We must remember, however, that Matter is simply Spirit 
crystallized into visibility ; therefore we find that the continua- 
tion of our Gospel quotation, "The same was in the beginning 
with God," is amply figured. Accordingly, this action makes 
what is known to Rosicrucians as the THIRD PROJECTION. 

In Fig. 5 we expanded our point both above and below the 
plane or horizon created in our last figure, symbolically into 
the worlds or spheres of Spij*it and Matter, dividing the Spirit 
world into the visible and invisible, and the Matter world into 
animate and inanimate. 

Herein we see that "All things were made by Him^ and 

/without Him was not anything made that was made." 
This constitutes the Rosicrucian FOURTH PROJECTION. 
These "projections " have thus been described symbolically, 
but students will understand that they have a far deeper sig- 
nificance in their practical and personal application when ap- 
plied to development along the highest spiritual lines. 

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Thus far our symbology may be said to be static. We now 
approach a new condition — the dynamic, if it may be so called. 
In continuation of our Gospel parallel we read, ''There was a 
MAN sent from God.'' 

In Fig. 30, God, or Deity, is represented bv 
the Circle or Sphere with the WORD, VERBUM, 
LOGOS, OR UNO as its active or creative center. 
From it we ''project' our point downwards, em- 
blematic of creative activity, in token whereof we 
place over our Great Central Flame (or original 
point) the Sign of Spirit Descending. This Sign 
of Spirit Descending, used frequently thruout Rosicrucian and 
other symbology, is made up of three factors: the Circle repre- 
senting Spirit in its totality as Deity, the right angle with the 
point downward we remember from Fig. 10 represents Matter 
OT d"'#arth ; and connected by the straight line of direction we 
fipd the complete symbol gives us an accu'rate concept of Spirit 
Descending. It is thus used as a conrplete symbol by itself, m 
connection with other symbols. 

Returning to our Fig. 30, however, we find by reference to 
our parallel reading the words, "Whose name was John. ' The 
line of direction downward thus formed m our figure, we shall 
in future know as "John," or he that proceedeth — the messen- 
ger sent before, to prepare the way. 

As we have learned that the higher principles fjanction in 
the lower thru the mediumship, focus, or base of mind, we 
complete this figure, therefore, by the emblem of MIND — the 
horizontal line, which we used to connect the two arms of our 
right angles in previous instances. 

We now have the completion of the Sign of Immortality, 
or Regeneration, also of Creative Activity or J^otJon. It is 
also the geometrical form of the Egyptian Crux Ansata, or Sign 
of Generation. 

This entire symbol when used with the Sign of Descending 
Spirit over the Verbum, signifies "JOHN'S DEPARTURE." 

It will be noted in the foregoing figure that Spirit focusses 
thru Minci, as represented by the horizontal. Coming directly 
under our spliere or symbolic concept of Deity, a triangle 
erected on this base of Mind will logically point downward. 
Bear in mind always that the triangle pointing upward signifies 
Spirit, and the reverse (i. e., pointing downward) signifies 
Matter — with one ^ossyble exception. 

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This exception is when the triangle is 
aeveloped in consonance with the Sign oi 
Spirit Descending. This is one of the reasons 
why many good readers become hopelessly 
entangled when trying to decipher intricate 
occult symbols. In our present case. Fig. 31, 
we note the close proximity of the Sign of 
Spirit Descending to our first triangle. In 
this position it gives the SAME SPIRITUAL 
SIGNIFICANCE to our triangle, only warn- 
ing us that when thus used it signifies the descent of the 
spiritual attributes which it represents. In this case, there- 
fore, our inverted triangle becomes a triangle of Spirit. 

Note further that it descends upon *'John,'' its apex denot- 
ing the convergence or focus of spiritual forces and their divi- 
sion or equilibrated position on either side of the Verbum, or 
Word of God. 

Now, ''as within the breagts are contained the vital parts 
of Man — so we find our tetragrammaton contains the parts 
or points which unite all the units of the sacred name of Deity. 
These points, therefore, become centers or creative sources of 
strength — or, as we may say, nourishment. These two notable 
centers, as illustrated by the black points, we use as the cen- 
ters of circles, the symbols of creation as a synonym for Deity. 
The six-pointed star or interlaced tri- 
angles we found in Fig. 15 represented or 
expresst perfect equilibrium between Matter 
and Spirit. Referring to Fig. 32 and remem- 
bering that in Fig. 31 we found that in this 
present instance what would ordinarily have 
been the triangle of Matter has been, by the 
presence of the Sign of Spirit Descending 
converted into the triangle of Spirit in 3ts 
descending aspect, so the focal part of the 
spirit triangle impinging upon "John'' indicates the ATTAIN' 

MENT OF MATTER— or CRYSTALLIZATION. 

^ Matter, we here represent by a triangle or tetra, but in this 
case inverted, as we are obliged to do in pursuance of the 
indications given us by the inverted Spirit triangle. 

Crystallization means the completion of INVOLUTION, 
therefore EVOLUTION must symbolically begin where Invo- 
lution ends. 

Thus we interlace or interlock the triangles, but not in the 
position of perfect equilibrium, for Spirit cannot be in perfect 




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eauilibrium IN Matter with these few imperfect ''Projections," 
otherwise we would have neither INvolution or EVolution. 

We therefore interlock their apices to form the SQUARE 
of complete Matter, altho in this instance it will take on the 
appearance of a rhomboid, which figure also symbolizes the 
struggle for equilibrium between two powerful opposing forces. 

The purpose of Evolution is to permit Matter to ascend into 
S^fnt — before doing which it must be REGENERATED from 
its state of gross crystallization into sublimate essence or pure 
Spirit — and this is accomplished only thru the focus of Mind. 
Thus we place the Crux Ansata or symbol of Generation, Re- 
generation, and Immortality over the intersection of MIND 
with JOHN, the active principle. Cosmic Messenger — or 

''WAY.^' 

The ASCENT OF MATTER is indicated by the Sign of 
Ascension placed over the regenerative, or creative principle. 

Note in Fig. 33 (and in preceding figures) 
that it IS the two Yods m the Tetras which 
unite to form the Square under the sem- 
blance of the rhomboid. 

The Square we found to represent the 
complete sum of the Four Elements of Matter 
and Spirit, or both as Matter — Fire, Air, 
Water and Earth. 

In other words, the Material and Solar 
termini of ''God' therefore not only CREATE 
but UNIFY the entire Solar System or Plexus of Worlds. 

Thus our square (or rhomboid) becomes a Solar Plexus 
of Creation, or uniting Point of both Spiritual and Material 
forces. 

Also note : that the Vaus (Fig. 34 and 
preceding figures) both occupy relatively op- 
posite points intersecting the planes of Mind 
on "John/' 

MIND being the Plane of Expression and 
the apices of the Vaus pointing upon and 
intersecting MIND, shows in the upper or 
Spirit triangle the HIGHEST Point of Ex- 
pression or Manifestation on "John,' the 
Messenger of Creative Activity. 

Again, MIND being the Plane of Expression and the apex 
of the opposite Vau pointing downward as it intersects the 
Plane, shows the LOWEST Point of Expression or Manifesta- 
tion also to be on "John." 





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Fie 3^5 




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Thus, Creative Activity on the Spiritual Plane is UP- 
WARD, a process of the Mental, Celestial, and Divine fac- 
ulties — the Power of Spirit. And again. Creative Activity on 
the Plane of Matter is thus DOWNWARD, a process of the 
Physical, Terrestrial, but also Divine faculties — the Power of 
Matter. 

We are constructing the symbolic figure of the GRAND 

MAN OF THE COSMOS— THE MACROCOSM— or COS- 
MIC TEMPLE. Therefore our Grand Man or Temple 
must have SUPPORT. 

Amongst the ancient Egyptians, Chaldeans, Babylonians, 
and later the Hebrews, it was customary to erect before their 
sacred houses what were known as Gates or Pylons. These 
may still be seen before Buddhist and Shinto Temples in 
India, China, and Japan, and in many of the ruins of Egypt 
and also amongst the remains of earlier civilizations. 

They will all be distinguished from ordi- 
nary entrances by one unfailing sign, the Sign 
of Immortality, Resurrection, Creative Power 
and Fecundity, placed between them directly 
over the center (on the connecting link of 

MIND). (Fig. 35.) 

Amongst the Egyptians these two pillars 
were known as Jachinnes and Boazostris. 
They denoted — not as sometimes claimed — 
''strength' and ""establishment,' but ''Sup- 
port and "Duration,' which is the actual interpretation of the 
two words. 

These two words were later shortened by our Hebrew 
brethren after the Exodus into Jachin and Boaz, and used with 
the same significance at the entrance to their Tabernacle m 
the Wilderness, which was set up m a manner similar to but 
on a smaller scale than the Egyptian Temples from which in 
a sense they had escaped. 

In Fig. 36 we place the torso of our Grand 
Man or Temple on the Pillars of Hercules, 
as these two notable features were later 
known to Plato, and symbolized in Mythol- 
ogy by the two peaks at the entrance to 
Oceannus or what is now known as the 
Mediterranean Sea. Our Grand Man is thus 
supported by the jfafchin and Boaz of the 
Hebrews or Ih^jacl^ii^n and Boazostris of 
the Egyptians. 





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1 I 

FIG.35 




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These pillars, you will observe, support the Plane of Mind, 
indicating its Permanent and Ineffaceable property at a point 
found by the bisection of the Hes with the Plane of Mind. 

We thus indicate by the bi-section of a part of the Name of 
Deity, its bi-creative, bi-comprehensive, or bi-sexual nature ; 
in other words, the hermaphroditic nature of the Absolute. 

Our Grand Man now has accurate and well-distributed 
balance and bears the Sign of Generation, Regeneration, Im- 
mortality and Life in its proper place, between the two pillars 
or columns. 

And still, all is God. 

Therefore we symbol- 
ize the Deific Nature by 
the Symbol of Deity — 
the Circle — in this case 
formed by the centrifu- 
gal emanations from the 
two points of Nourish- 
ment or Strength. (Dot- 
ted lines in Fig. 37.) 
These, proceeding out- 
wards in every direction 
m two streams, unite to 
form the Circle or Cos- 
mos. As we found in the 
preceding figures that 
activit,y downward on 

the left hand side indi- 

cates Involution, and con- 
versely Evolution, so the stream of life force from the left 
point symbolizes descent or the Material part of the Cosmos, 
and the opposite stream ascending symbolizes the bringing 
into being of the Spiritual aspect of the Cosmos. 

This we further designate by noting that the intersection 
of the triangles forming the torso of our Grand Man takes 
place directly over the center of the circle thus formed. Our 
Solar Plexus in this case directs us to project the dividing line 
of Mind from the center outward to each side, thus indicating 
the upper half as Spirit, and the lower half as Matter. To 
further express this idea we place in each quarter as formed by 
the intersection of Mind with John the symbols of Fire, Air, 
Water and Earth. 

Each symbol, you will observe, is our original triangle or 
Tetra, but with those representing the Earth and Air having 




FIG. 3Z 



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the curved line ascending and descending as we found it orig- 
inally proceeded from the two great points when we constructed 
the Grand Circle. 

The central point where John is intersected by Mind in the 
Grand Circle, is still our original Verbum or Word — in sus- 
pension between upper and lower. This again follows closely 
the lines from the mystic Gospel of John where he says — 

''In HIM (The Word) was Life, and the Life was the 
LIGHT of Men.^^ 

''He (the Word) was in the World, and the World (the 
Grand Man) was made by Him, and the World knew Him 
not, ' 

"John (our upright line) bear witness of Him — this (the 
Word) was He of whom I spake. He that cometh after me 
(the Word following down John) is preferred before me 
(Spiritual Creation greater than Physical Creation) for He 
WAS before me.' (Our original point of departure.) 

By projection from the Solar Plexus, therefore, our Circle, 
Cycle or Cosmos is thus formed from the Four Elements — 
two of Spirit, two of Matter or Earth. 

These two streams of cosmic force we also find referred 
to in the Genesiac account of Creation, the Pentateuch, or 
Genesis of Moses, as the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, between 
which God planted the Garden of Eden (Solar Plexus or union 
of all spiritual and material forces and potencies) and the gen- 
erative system by which involution is connected with evolu- 
tion — Matter regenerated, and Spiritual Immortality or Orig- 
inal Innocence^Paradise — is regained. 

As all the conditions from which creative products emerge 
are essentially feminine, so do we understand the Word or 
Logos of our Grand Man to be feminine. 

We therefore place the feminine Sign (also an astronom- 
ical and astrological sign with different meanings when used 
in connection with those sciences) over the upper periphery, 
and indicating the emanations from the feminine creative 
source by rays, sjrmbolizing our GREAT CENTRAL FLAME, 
the 

AIN SOPH— SOPHIA— or according to the ancient He- 
brews, the OLD or ANCIENT WISDOM. 

We denote the universality of Mind by extending the Plane 
of Mind to the boundaries of the Cosmic Universe. 

Thus, extending universally from East to West, from North 
to South, and — conceiving the circle to be a sphere as we were 
taught in our opening chapter — our Temple extends in height 

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to the canopy oi Heaven, and in depth '*from the surface to 
the center/' 

On returning again to our Solar Plexus we find the union 
of the two great principles, — the Spiritual and the Physical. 

From the apex, therefore, of the upper Yod we find that 
condition in which, we are taught in occult science, resides the 
''Infinitesimal Seed Atom ' in the ''Sea of Highest Ether/' 
From this radiates in every direction those rays of cosmic 
strength which vivify and vitalize the entire cosmic organism. 

From the apex of the lower Yod radiate from John the rays 
which carry force, energy, direction, and intelligence to every 
portion of our Cosmic Figure. 

Last of all we have that configuration whence w^iU arise 
"a due proportion and just correspondence in all its parts," 
which give a structure STRENGTH, SUPPORT, AND 
BEAUTY. Thus our Temple is supported by WISDOM to 
Contrive, STRENGTH to Support and Preserve, and BEAUTY 
to adorn the Grand Man of the Cosmos, or Macrocosm — the 
Temple of the Uno or ABSOLUTE. 




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\ 



CHAPTER III, 



In the preceding chapter we accomplished Four ''Projec- 
tions/' culminating in the ''First Creative Point'' indicated by 
the sixth verse of the mystic Johannine gospel, "There was a 
'Man' sent from God." 

We have closely paralleled the fourth, tenth, and fifteenth 
verses — 

"In Him (the Word) was LIFE, and the LIFE was the 

LIGHT of MEN." 

"He (the Word) was in the World, and the World (the 
Grand Man) was made by Him and the World knew Him riot." 

"John" bare witness of Him — this (the Word) "was He 
of whom I spake. He that cometh after me" (the Word follow- 
ing down the "way" made by John) "is preferred before me" 
(Spiritual Creation greater than Physical Creation) "for He 
was before me." (Our original point of departure.) 

Rearranging these verses in their proper sequence and 
adding two, we have — 

"In Him was Life, and the Life was the LIGHT of Men." 

''And the LIGHT shineth in darkness, and the darkness 
comprehendeth it not." 

"He was in the World, and the World was made by Him 
and the World knew Him not." 

"But as many as received Him, to them gave He jtower to 
become the Sons of God ' — 

"Which were bom, not of blood, nor of the Will of the 
Flesh, nor of the Will of Man, but of God" — 

"And the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us, and 
fve beheld His Glory, as of the only begotten of the Father, 
full of Grace and Truth." 

"John bear witness of Him, this is He of whom I spake. 
He that cometh after me is preferred before me : for He 
WAS before me." 

Our next logical step is the 

FIFTH PROJECTION, or Second Creative Point— the ex- 
pansion or '^Projection" of "John" into the complete "IMAGE" 
of the Macrocosm — showing us the MICROCOSM or Plan- 
etary Man. 

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rhe word '*man'' as used in the preceding chapters signifies 
the complete Involution of Spirit into Matter. 

In this chapter it will indicate the Physical Man as the 
Projection of the Divine Image created by the Macrocosm. 
Readers and students are also urged to co-relate the creative 
sentences in the Johannine gospel with the creative sentences 
in the Book of Genesis, wherein the same operations of sep- 
arating Light from Darkness, Water from Earth, etc., will be 
paralleled. 

We shall not attempt^ herein to define the processes by 
which Cosmic Inertia was overcome, nor by which MOIION 
and the resultants of Action and Reaction originated. Such 
belong pre-eminently to the domain of cosmic chemistry and 
physics. 

We shall endeavor to follow the orderly processes by which 
Man became manifest as the "IMAGE OF GOD." 

First, — we are justified in seeking a 

MOTIVE FOR VISIBLE CREATION. 

or this cosmic projection on such a vast scale as the tangible 
realization of HUMANITY. Nor have we far to seek for such 
a motive, for it lies clearly before us. 

It IS commonly known to all students of the occult that the 
great goal of the majority of searchers has been the so-called 
^'Master's Word' or creative utterance that was the initial 
cause of visible creation. It is manifestly absurd to conceive 
of an uttered "word'' proceeding from an absolutely impersonal 
cosmic condition. Instead of audible sound, the so-called 
"Master's Word" was something far greater — PRINCIPLE, 

and the GREATEST PRINCIPLE IN THE UNIVERSE. 

We are taught by John's gospel, and we have been clearly 
taught by our projection of John that — - 

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with 
God, and the Word WAS God— and— (I. John 4-16)— God 

isLOVEr . 

The "Master's Word" then is LOVE, and Love is the 
motive for Creation. Not the transient, ephemeral sentiment 
so often degraded by the name of love, but the BIG, COSMIC 
PRINCIPLE, that was the cause of our p^-esent existence. 

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Love in its essential nature has but one mode of expression 
thruout the Cosmos— REPRODUCTION. 

We have found our Grand Man or God, to be bi-natured 
or bi-sexual. Therefore as the result of the complete aflinity 
between those two elements within. He had but one mode of 
external expression, so ''God' said — 

"Let us create (project) MAN in OUR own IMAGE." 
(Gen. 1-26.) 

And John says — 

''And the Word (LOVE) was made FLESH." (John M4.) 

We see that our original point has taken on still another 
and much higher meaning, so that it now comprehends as the 

GREAT CENTRAL FLAME 



The Word 
Verbum 
Logos 
Uno 



LOVE, 



As our Fifth Rosf crucian Projection we shall try to expand 
it even as we did in the construction of oUr Macrocosm, for 
the production of the Microcosm. 

With our original point (Fig. 1) now known as LOVE, and 
impressed with the desire for the reproduction of those con- 
ditions which constitute the best and highest cosmic concepts, 
we expand our point into the original Deific Circle, in this 
instance to become the corresponding part of our Microcosm 
or Planetary Man. (Fig. 2.) 

As before, we project our line laterally in either direction 
in obedience to the fiat, "And God said. Let there be Light." 
(Fig. 4. "a.") 

Thus, the head of our Microcosm will represent two im- 
portant hemispheres, the Upper, or Spiritual, indicating the 
Light of intelligence, and the Lower, or Material, representing 
the darkness of the material conditions to which it serves as 
the portal. (Fig. 38.) 

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FIG 38 



Right here it is important to remember that in this projec- 
tion of our Microcosm from the Macrocosm, such projection 
is to be conceived as lateral in EVERY DIRECTION. That 
IS, our Macrocosm is a spheroid condition, not simply projec- 
tion m one singfle direction outwardly in space. 

Now we are informed by those who can resort to the 
Memory of Nature for their knowledge of archetypes, that the 
first form of man's dense vehicle in a remote period long 
before this planet's projection ' into space, and, singularly 
enough while in a state of great light and heat, was that of a 
large nebulous object, with a single protruberance, or organ, 
which gradually became sensitive to heat and acted as a pre- 
servative against the destructive forces of heat around it. 



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This organ was no other than our Word, or original seat oi 
love, which, under the Sign of Spirit Descending as in our 
Macrocosm, was projected outward and in the case of the 
Microcosm downward exterior to the two hemispheres cre- 
ated in the earhest stage of our Image of God. 

Thus this organ of Love was the first organ ot sensation, 
and its latent physiological form today in the human head is 
known as the PINEAL GLAND or THIRD EYE, so-called, 
\ altho it never was, strictly speaking, an eye. 

As we proceed, we find as in the Macrocosm, John mani- 
Jtesting thru MIND, the inverted base of our Triangle forming 
the spiritual part of man's vital organism, pointing downwards. 
And as the spiritual triangle is emblematic of the Sacred Name 
of Deity, we therefore divide it as before into the four interior 
triangles in each of which we place the Yod, He, Vau, He or 
Ineffable Name. 

This gives us, again, the two principal points of strength or 
nourishment, indicated by points which we expand into their 
appropriate circles or spheres of activity. A point, you will 
remember, represents merely a static condition. The circle 
indicates its sphere of activity or use. 

As the inverted triangle symbolizes Man's Spiritual forces 
m INVOLUTION, so conversely we must represent his Spirit- 
ual forces in Matter as provided with the avenues of EVOLU- 
TION, by the triangle of Matter inverted, or the upright 
triangle. 

The triangle or tetragrammaton always representing Deity 
in its threefold aspects, we again inscribe within our triangle 
of Matter the Ineffable Name, thus in the two triangles em- 
phasizing the truth that all that is best in Man's complete 
nature is but an expression of the God within, as we use it in 
Rosicrucian verbiage. 

The interlocking of our two triangles in the Microcosm re- 
produces the Solar Plexus of the Macrocosm, or union of all 
the forces inherent within the human organism, a fact as true 
physiologically as psychologically. 

And as the apex of the Vau in the upper triangle indicates 
the point of highest creative activity in the Macrocosm, so must 
it also represent the same in the Microcosm, and conversely, 
the apex of the Vau in the lower triangle represents the lowest 
phase of creative activity in the Macrocosm, so does it also 
represent the lowest or present creative point in the human 
organism. 

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But, as in our Grand Man, we were taught that the upper 
apex represented the highest, or spiritual iorm of creative ac- 
tivity, or the first form of reproduction by the Word — or LOVE 
— so does this same point m Man, indicated by the larynx, 
represent to us Man's future exalted state wherein no further 
reproduction shall be accomplished by physical organs or pro- 
cesses, but by spiritual power alone — the full flower of man's 
development from a crystallized form in Matter to a glorious 
spiritual being or Hierarch — the esoteric truth of the parable 
of the husbandmen wherein the industrious one was told that 
as he had been faithful over a few things he should thence- 
forth be made ruler over many things. 

In token whereof we place our rose symbol over the larynx, 
signifying the future flower of perfected development to which 
we as Rosicrucian students all look. 

Remembering the configuration which the elements of 
Wisdom, Strength and Beauty gave to our Grand Man, we 
reproduce the same elemental form which in the present figure 
becomes the muscular support. 

And from the apex of the lower triangle or upper Yod we 
construct the vehicle for the seed atom in its sea of attenuated 
ether, which now becomes the heart, from which radiate those 
avenues which form the pathway of the ''River of Life,'' the 
BLOOD, vivifying and vitalizing the entire organism. 

From the lower Yod in the upper triangle radiate from 
John those avenues of impact which carry force, sense, energy, 
and intelligence to every part of the organism. 

Yet, thru all these planes of manifestation we still find 
John the avenue of tangible progress and creative activity, so 
that as m our Grand Man we find it still represents to us the 
opposite pole or creative organ as m the beginning. But as 
we found our Grand Man to be bi-sexual, so we find our Homo 
or Microcosm to be bi-sexual in its essential nature as repre- 
sented by the combined phallic symbols, the Y oni and the 
Itingham united. 

Remember that John was the first organ of sense, and 
aside from its present external configuration its internal rami- 
fications are spread over the entire body in both male and 
female, as shown by its persistence in rudimentary form m the 
clitoris, altho as the sexes alternate more or less in their incar- 
nations each experiences in turn the full creative activity of 
this cosmic, organic persistence. This is cited here, however, 

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to show how one sense alone can become generalized thruout 
the entire organism, a destiny which awaits all our present 
sense perceptions. 

To place our Microcosm upon Jachin and Boaz is but the 
work of a moment and symbolizes to us the Image oi the Deific 
omniscience or omnipresence by giving to our HOMO the 
powers of locomotion in the limited requirements of planetary 
activity. 

To return to the head of our Microcosm : — 

We learn that organs are evolved in obedience to the re- 
quirements of environment. 

Thus, as Heat originally brot forth John from within the 
body of God, so Light brot into being the avenues by which 
it could be sensed. So the eyes, or organs by which Light is 
perceived, belong essentially to the plane of Light, and we thus 
place them above the median line of the Head, as the windows 
of Intelligence or Spirit. 

Sound likewise creates its own avenues of sense, and as 
sound affects both the Spiritual and Material Planes, we place 
the ears or organs of audition over the median line where it 
bisects the circle. 

We found that the apex of the Vau in the Spirit triangle 
represented the highest point of creative activity, so we place 
the mouth in the material half of the Head, directly over the 
larynx, for two reasons : 

First, what enters the body by way of the mouth goes 
directly to the material half of the body, so the mouth properly 
belongs in that classification ; 

Secondly, we learn from the Scriptures that not what en- 
tereth, but what proceedeth from the mouth of man is what 
characterizes him, so the mouth properly belongs, while in the 
material half of the head, yet directly over the larynx or place 
of spiritual utterance and activity. 

It is a notable fact that strong emotion produces an appar- 
ent "swelling in the throat,'' showing its intimate association i ^ 
with the mental and intellectual processes. ' ^^ 

Now, singularly enough, we find our Word, or LOVE, or 
the Pineal Gland, directly over where the NOSE SHOULD 
BE. And of all the physical organs we yet await the savant 
who shall reveal to us higher and grander functions of the nose 
than that of mere smell, or the ability to distinguish between 
agreeable and disagreeable odors. Sometimes we should be 
much better off were we unable to smell at all, aside from 
conditions of warning against noxious and injurious gases. 
On the other hand, odors from flowers do not interest our 

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organisms as such, but they DO stimulate our spiritual sensc&, 
and under some conditions do also stimulate our sense centers, 
especially the sexual, which shows the immense importance of 
the powers oi smell in connection with John, or the Creative 
powers of Man. 

The term ''IMAGE'' does not mean a physical reproduc- 
tion but a symbolical representation which gradually perfects 
its form as a result of the struggle for existence and adapta- 
tion to environment. 

The figure we have now completed fits the descriptions 
given us in the lines quoted at the beginning of this lesson. 

Our point, the ''Word,'' or LOVE, "shone in the Darkness 
and the Darkness comprehended it not. " 

"It was in the World " (the Grand Man) "and the World " 
(the Grand Man) "knew Him (it) not " — (was unconscious, 
non-individualized spirit) . 

"But as many as received Him" (the Word) (Love) (Pro- 
jected Images of God) "to them gave He power to become the 
Sons of God " (conscious, individualized egos or homos). 

"Which " (the Homos or Men) "were born, not of Blood, 
nor of the Will of the Flesh, nor of the Will of Man" (not born 
as the result of spontaneous generation or of intelligent 
Matter) — 

"But of God" — (projected in the Image of God and en- 
dowed with the faculties of reproduction thru LOVE. 

"And the Word" (LOVE) "was made Flesh" (incarnate 
as Man) "and dwelt among us," in the material world, "and 
we beheld his glory as of the only begotten of the Father" 
(recognized our kinship with each other and our common 
origin and parentage) "full of grace and truth" (our true and 
proper spiritual condition when uncontaminated by matter as 
with infants, or free from material conditions as in the higher 
spiritual development) . 




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CHAPTER IV. 



The last three chapters constitute a trilogy of cosmic sym- 
bolism, and traced the development of a cosmos or universe 
and the conditions of its involution and evolution, by symbolic 
methods, to the reflection or projection of MAN in the 

IMAGE of GOD. 

Man is thus the crystallization of forces WITHIN — OUT- 
WARDS, in exactly the same manner by which the snail, 
oyster, mollusca, and other primal forms build outwardly, cul- 
minating in the crystallization of their outer surface m the 
shell or physical vehicle. 

Now, to revert back to our ORIGINAL POINT— tlie 
WORD, VERBUM, LOGOS, the true interpretation of which 
we found to be LOVE, — and — physiologically, in our Micro- 
cosm, to be the PINEAL GLAND. 

Let us again take the Point as our place of departure. 

Bear in mind thruout this chapter that among the ancients 
the Universe was always conceived as a vast EGG. If we 
accept the Hermetic axiom, ''As above, so below,' we must 
also postulate, as m God, so in Man, His ''Image. ' There- 
fore MAN begins and grows as an Egg, in an Egg, and devel- 
ops as an Egg. and finally between the two sexes into which 
Man differentiates, produces or rather reproduces, fecundates 
and fertilizes an egg exterior to himself for a newer creation. 

Our Point now becomes what is known to physical scien- 
tists as (Fig. 1) 

the NUCLEOLUS, kernel speck, or Germ Spot, which, 
amplified by the Deific aspect of Activity, or the Circle, 
effected by radial emanations (remember the spheroid) of its 
less potent substance becomes the 

® Nucleus, kernel, or Germ Bladder. (Fig. 3.) 

Let this Nucleolus or Germ Spot, centered in the Nucleus 
or Germ Bladder, represent to us the Divine or Potential 
aspect of the new structure we are about to create, whatever 
it may prove to be. 

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We Kave learned that all outward, visible forms are but the 
exterior crystallization of interior forces ; and remembering 
the illustration of the snail, we shall look for the further devel- 
opment or crystallization of our Germ Spot and Germ Bladder, 
the Nucleolus and Nucleus, in a manner similar to that by 
which we expanded our Macrocosm from a single point, and 
from the Macrocosm projected the Microcosm. Thus from 
Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 we have (Fig. 40, "a") the Proto-Plasm, Cell 
Substance, or yolk of our developing Egg. 

And as we remember again that the Cir- 
cle represents to us the sphere of activity 
of a given condition or substance, so we con- 
fine our protoplasm capsule-like withm a 
membrane — which later on m biology we 
shall find is called in mammals on account 
of its transparency ''Membrana Pellucida.' 
(Fig. 40, "b.") 

We have now a complete Cell, the basis 
of all existence, common alike to all forms 
of inorganic and organic life, altho you will undoubtedly find 
that some scientists refuse to admit the application of the 
cellular theory to the mineral kingdom ; yet, on chemical 
analysis of mineral or metal reduced, we find the same cellular 
structure both prior to ^nd after crystallization, and it is due 
solely to this fact that animate life or activity can be artificially 
produced by laboratory methods from inorganic substances. 

And right here let us now recognize the states of Matter 
or Substance as they are known to Rosicrucians : 

Primordial Substance, or Matter in the form of Spirit, is 
known to Rosicrucians as 




MATERIA PRIMA— AW 



asa. 



After Materia Prima we distinguish between 

(a) Materia Remota, 

(b) Materia Proxima, 

(c) Materia Ultima — 

or Primordial Matter in the various stages of its Involution, 
Apparent Matter in the visible stages of its Evolution, and 
Ultimate Matter m the process of its future spiritual develop- 
ment and unfoldment. 

In our present Cell, the first commencement of develop- 
ment IS found to be by what is called the cleavage of the egg, 
or propagation by self division. 

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1^ 




Pie 42 




So in Fig. 41 the egg by the formation 
of the first furrow falls into two cells. 

These in Fig. 42 by separate divisions 
become four cells. 

These m turn have divided into eight 
cells. (Fig. 43.) 

In Fig. 44 by repeated division a globular 
accumulation of numerous cells has arisen. 



''As above, so below/' 

What was true of our first cells is now true of the entire 
structure, and we now ""project," as in the formation of our 
Microcosm. 

Considering our first cell as the Pineal 
Gland, and remembering the projection of 
''John' downwards, by the process known 
as "fission'' we find our accumulation of cells 
divided into two equal halves or lobes, ver- 
tically, and into two unequal lobes horizon- 
tally ; that is, apparently unequal, but the 
correct distribution of weight restores the 
equality. 

From this point it is comparatively easy, 
without going into details, to construct in the versimilitude of 
our Microcosm, that organism which acts as the medium be- 
tween man's original spiritual state and his present or physi- 
cal manifestation — the Brain and Cerebro-Spinal System. 

It will have been noted that this entire system is but the 
expansion of our original point or Pineal Gland, in this lesson 
known as our Cell, and that all forms of reproduction must 
inevitably progress along these lines. This law will hold 
equally true in physical as well as spiritual science. 




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Referring again to the Hermetic axiom and applying it to 
our Cell and the resultant procession of cells, we find if we 
insert the symbols H, Hydrogen ; N, Nitrogen ; O, Oxygen ; 
C, Carbon in our first quadrad of cells, we shall have the four 
elements composing pure protoplasm, or elemental organic 
and inorganic substance. These four elements form the basis 
of all cell structure, and even these four are, under some con- 
ditions, reducible. Any additional elements or compounds 
which may exist under later forms of development are the 
results of exterior processes such as nutrition, breathing, etc. 

The point we want to make is that without going too much 
into chemical details, all substance is, in the last analysis — 
homogeneous . 

It IS on this basis that we are justified in seeking the Philos- 
opher's Stone, which is far from a chimera, and which has 
been found, but under conditions which make it necessary for 
each individual to find li. only for himself. 

It IS understood and accepted, that Man sums up within 
himself all the elements and factors of lower, earlier and prior 
forms of evolving life. Just how this is done it is the purpose 
of this chapter to show. 

The whole secret is contained in the Brain and Cerebro- 
spinal system. What is true of one cell is true of all other 
cells, structurally. The differentiation comes as the result of 
the action of the evolving higher vehicles of which the reader 
has undoubtedly learned in previous reading and study. 

Physiologically, however, all forms of life from the lowest 
to the highest begin with the same point of departure and go 
thru the same processes complete. To show the truth of this 
we will illustrate the germs or embryos of four vertebrates, at 
stages of four weeks and six weeks respectively, with one. 
exception — that of the chick, which will be four days. 




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In each of the following diagrams, 1 indicates the Fore 
Brain; 2, the Mid-Brain; 3, the Hind Brain, and 4, the After 
Brain; 5, the Spinal Cord; 6, the Spine. 





Fie. 52 



Fig. 46,. 
The Chick, four days. 

Fig. 47. 
The Tortoise, four weeks. 




FiaA^T" 



Fig. 48. 

The Dog, four weeks. 

Fig. 49 
The Man, four weeks. 




Fie-^G 



Fig. 50. 

The Chick, eight days. 

Fig. 51. 

The Tortoise, six weeks. 




Fig. 52. 

The Dog, six weeks. 

Fig. 53, 

The Man, eight weeks. 




It is needless to describe these diagrams in detail. In 
each the ^'descent'' of John will be plainly and clearly noted as 
well as the resultant development thruout the entire organism. 
These diagrams do not assume to be perfect embryologically, 



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but they do show accurately the consonant development of the 
physical vehicle with the expansion oi what we as occult stu- 
dents recognize as the interior cosmic creative impulse. 

The accompanying chart shows the embryological compari- 
sons of the stages of foetal growth with those of various time 
periods, geological data, and corresponding forms of organic 
life. 

The principal object of this chapter is to show how the 
entire system of Rosicrucian symbology gives us a definite 
plan of construction, and how its proper application enables 
us to solve many, if not all of the problems presented to us by 
occult science, even as the globes ""enable us to establish the 
relations of seas and continents, the various parts of the earth, 
the planetary revolutions, etc' 

Symbology is to occult science what the skeleton is to Man, 
or the plans to an architect and builder. In his future studies, 
the reader is earnestly advised to work out m symbols, the 
meanings and esoteric interpretations which may appeal to 
him, and according to his ability to understand the plans rep- 
resented by symbology will be his comprehension of many of 
the most important, interesting, and beautiful truths which 
obscure occult verbiage at present hides from the general 
reader. 




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OEVELOPJ^EI^T OF THE MICROCOSM 

How the foetal human brain develops progressively in strict analogy to the evolutional 

developnnent of animal life. 





GEOLOGICAL 


ANIMAL 


HUMAN 


Time: 


Archaean. 






Age: 


Eozoic. 
Azoic. 






1. Time: 


Paleozoic. 


Animal vestiges. 


Foetal Human Brain, at 


Age: 


invertebrate. 


All invertebrates. 


one month, resembles 


Era: 


Silurian, Upper and 


Mollusca, 


that of Invertebrates. 




Lower. 


Crustacea, 




Period: 


Cambrian to Lower 


Polypes, 






Heidelberg. 


Crustaceous Fishes. 




Rocks: 


Sandstones, L i m e- 
stones, Shale. Clay, 
Slate, and Gneiss. 






2. Time: 


Paleozoic. 


Animal vestiges. 


Foetal Human Brain at 


Age: 


Fishes — Acrogens. 


Primitive, but notably 


two months, resembles 


Era: 


Devonian and Carbon- 
iferous. 


True Fishes. 


the brain of a Fish. 


Period: 


Oriskany to Permian. 






Rocks: 


Old Red Sandstones, 
Slate, Limestones, sec- 
ond and third Coal 
Measures, Lower Red 
Sandstones, Magnesian 
Limestones. 






3. Time: 


Mesozoic. 


Animal vestiges. 


Foetal Human Brain at 


Era: 


Reptiles. 


All Reptiles, Lizards, 


three months, resembles 


Age: 


Jura-Trias (Triassic, 


Crocodiles, Frog Spe- 


a Turtle's. 




and Jura Triassic). 


cies, Turtles, Gigantic 




Period: 


Lower to Purbeck. 


Reptiles and Extinct 




Rocks: 


New Red Sandstone, 
Marlstones. 


Monsters. 




4. Time: 


Mesozoic. 


Animal vestiges. 


Foetal Human Brain at 


Age: 


Reptiles. 


Platipi, Semi-Aquatic 


four months is like to 


Era: 


Cretaceous. 


and Land Animals, 


that of a Bird. 


Period: 


Lower to Saranac. 


and Birds. 




Rocks: 


Upper and Lower 
Chalks, Marl, Oxford 
and Bath Oolites, 
Neocomian. 






5. Time: 


Cenozoic. 


Animal vestiges. 


Foetal Human Brain at j 


Age: 


Mammals. 


Marsupials, Rodents, 


five months, resembles i 


Era: 


Tertiary. 


Ruminati, and Animals 


that of a Rodent; at six 


Period: 


Eocene, Oligocene, 


that walk on their 


months, a Ruminate; at 




Miocene. 


toes, as distinguished 


seven months, a Digiti- 


Rocks: 


Green River, Igneous, 
and Nummulitic. 


from fins and web feet. 


grade. 


5. Time: 


Cenozoic. 


Animal vestiges. 


Foetal Human Brain at 


Age: 


Mammals. 


All the foregoing, with 


eight months' develop- 


Era: 


Tertiary. 


the addition of Four- 


ment, resembles that of 


Period: 


Pliocene. 


Handed Animals or 


a Quadrumana or 


Rocks: 


English Crag, and Sub- 


Quadrumana, Monkeys 


Monkey. 




Apennine Beds. 


and Anthropoids. 






Cenozoic. 


Animal vestiges. 


Foetal Human Brain at 


7. Time: 


Mammal. 


Practically all the fore- 


nine months' develop- 


Era: 


Quarternary or Post- 


going with excessive 


ment has become that of 


Era: 


Tertiary. 


increase of class, genus, 


a true Human Being or 




Glacial, Champlain, 


species, and type, also 


Bihumana. 


Period: 


Recent. 


MAN, the first true 






Pleistocene, Contem- 


two-handed animal or 




Rocks: 


porary Deposits, Me- 


Bihumana. 






teorites, Cavernous. 







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CHAPTER V. 



We have now accomplished the following important steps : 

First — We have found that all symbolic representation orig- 
inates with the point. This rule is invariably to be followed 
m all symbolic representation or delineation, and the Point is 
me first thing to be sought in any attempt to interpret a legiti- 
mate occult formula. 

Second — We have enumerated the complete series of sym- 
bols used in delineating static symbology. These are Right 
Angles, Horizontals, and Perpendiculars — the Circle being 
geometrically interpreted as an infinite number of points or 
an infinite number of short straight lines, equidistant from the 
central point. These constitute the Major Signs in occultism. 

Third — We have arranged these signs co-ordinately to 
each other in such a manner as to represent ''Order out of 
Chaos' or the comprehension of ''AH from One. ' 

Fourth — We have accomplished this arrangement by a 
series of "Projections'' the completion of which gave us the 
Macrocosm or Grand Man of the Universe, a symbology 
w^hich sums up m its essential components all the potential- 
ities of both Involution and Evolution, or Spirit Descending 
and Ascending. 

Fifth — With our Grand Man as the embodiment of the 
Great Central Flame we accomplished a further "Operation" 
by which we "Projected' Man, the Microcosm, in His image. 

Sixth — And last, we found our original Point, when con- 
sidered on the material plane, to be none other than the Pineal 
Gland, which has been the despair of physiologists, and which 
occultists have always asserted to be the original creative 
nucleolus, nucleus, complete cell — or EGG from which all vis- 
ible forms of life activity began to evolve. 

With the Pineal Gland as our starting point, as in all other 
■or previous projections, we performed the second "Operation" 
(keep in mind this term "operation" as it will later be found 
to be extremely significant), which was the development of 
the Cerebro-Spinal System — the most important part of Man's 
entire organism. 

This statement might possibly meet with some honest 
challenge from physiologists, biologists, or students of em- 

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bryonic forms, all of whom would undoubtedly agree upon 
either the circulatory or digestive systems as pre-eminent in 
importance on account of their supposedly prior origin. But 
bear m mind that in occultism, we have found that all visible 
forms are but the crystallization exteriorly, of inward, invisible 
forces ; and it is for the invisible force and source that the 
true occultist invariably looks. 

It is in the Pineal Gland that the Seed Atoms are first 
deposited, later travelling down ''John'' to the Heart and else- 
where. It is to the Pineal Gland that we first look, therefore, 
for our knowledge of the origin of visible Man. 

With this understanding of the importance of the Pineal 
Gland as the one pole of the Cerebro-Spinal column and sys- 
tem, the whole of the latter, taken with its ramifications, is 
seen to be the channel thru which the invisible potencies and 
forces carry on their processes of crystallization outwardly 
into visible, tangible manifestation. 

Physiologically speaking, since the Pineal Gland is thus the 
first point of creative activity in the forthcoming organism, we 
can see how^ true it is, objectively, that the first form of repro- 
duction is mental, consequently spiritual. 

Thus the Pineal Gland and its amplified group of cells — 
the brain — is, even today, the positive pole of creative activity, 
while the generative organs which we now temporarily (cos* 
mically speaking) find necessary for reproduction, are the neg- 
ative pole. 

Like Esau's surrender of his birthright for the pottage, the 
generative organs on the negative side are now given greater 
and undue prominence, simply because when Man began to 
know himself — and his wife — he also began to forget his spirit- 
ual existence, and creative activity on the positive pole gradu- 
ally became dormant. This accounts for the apparent dor- 
mancy of the Pineal Gland today, to which physiologists can 
assign no adequate use, yet it does not assume the necessary 
conditions to make it a true rudimentary organ. 

The truth that the positive pole is the true and greater 
center of creative activity is shown by the fact that many 
women who have cultivated their mental powers far beyond 
the ordinary can regulate or control the functions of conception 
and birth at will, regardless of any conditions of environment 
or association. 

This truth further explains the so-called phenomena of 
Parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, there being a number of well- 
authenticated cases of full and partial births without the usual. 

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conditions of co-kabitation ; altho it is only just to state tKat 
in no case has the progeny survived more than a matter of a 
few moments, and in one extreme case a few hours, nor has 
any case been that of a perfectly formed child. It does show, 
however, that it is possible for the ovum or EGG to become 
fecundated or fertilized without the intervention of the oppo- 
site sex. 

Present sex conditions are a makeshift, rendered neces- 
sary by Man's ignorance of his greater mental and spiritual 
powers. 

The neophyte in Rosicrucian work is instructed first to 
look well into himself, in seeking to penetrate into the mys- 
teries of Nature, for if he does not find what he seeks within, 
he will never find it without. These instructions are not 
merely empty formulas. To the neophyte who stops at the 
mere phraseology, they will undoubtedly be meaningless. To 
the neophyte who ACTS they will open up a mine of informa- 
tion and furnish the clues to many a hidden process. 

It is with the purpose of taking up this clue that we have 
advanced the foregoing statements regarding sex. 

First remember that God formed Man ''out of the dust of 
the ground,'' as we are cabbalistically informed in the first and 
second chapters of Genesis. (Genesis 1-27, and 2-7.) 

This, of course, is not to be taken literally, as the text 
would seem to imply and as a commonly accepted theology 
also infers. Instead, remember that we are placing the occult 
interpretation on all Scriptural readings. The truth contained 
herein is, that Man is formed of all the elements which con- 
stitute visible matter, the earth being taken as the great, pon- 
Tderable unit of such. 

Physical Man is the Magnum Opus of the Physical or 
Chemical World, and in the preceding lessons you have learned 
how he sums up within himself all the evolutionary processes 
of that world. You have also learned how he is a spiritual 
^^o, operating thru various vehicles — the outward visible crys- 
tallization of inward invisible forces. 

It is time we recognized this process by a different and far 
more significant appellation — TRANSMUTATION. 

The physical or so-called dense body of Man is the trans- 
mutation, under the direction of the Ego, of the finer spiritual 
substance, or Prima Materia, into first, Materia Remota, 
thence into the form as W2 at present know it. Materia 
Proxima. 



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What is true of the microbe is true of the Man; what is 
true of the drop of water is true of a planet; what is true of 
a planet is true of a solar system — ultimately of an universe. 

The same process, therefore, that has transmuted Prima 
Materia into Materia Remota in the dense or physical body 
of our planet, is equally stable and enduring in the case of man. 

The real study of Rosicrucians, therefore, is the study of 
Transmutation, botk PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL. 

In this study we first contemplate the Atom, which modern 
science subdivides into elektrons and eons. Its latest postu- 
late is that of a form of electrical energy. 

Whether it be energy, or static Matter energized by some 
force, odic or otherwise, possibly at present unknown and un- 
suspected, anything that has existence in ponderable form 
must have substance. Ancient and modern chemistry takes 
as the basis of all primal forms the four conditions known as 

OXYGEN, HYDROGEN, NITROGEN, AND CARBON. Note 

that we call them ''conditions'' instead of the scientific term 
""elements, ' as occultism always bears in mind that material 
science is far from having arrived at the last word m the 
knowledge of any of them. In these four conditions we find 
all that is necessary to produce the first operation in the trans- 
mutation of Prima Materia into Materia Remota, and thence 
into Materia Proxima, which in its earliest visible stage we 
term Protoplasm, 

A reductive analysis of any metal or mineral in a state of 
comparative chemical purity, to its ultimate base, will bring 
us inevitably to the same basic result. It is not a matter of 
imagination, therefore, to realize that all types of visible mat- 
ter are homogeneous basically, various compounds being pro- 
duced as the result of internal and external forces of environ- 
ment, and becoming more and more complex as the processes 
of involution and evolution advance. 

Keep constantly in mind the motto of the Order — "Omnia 
ab Uno,' or All from One. 

The forces just referred to, and the Pijinuni_Mobile as 
applied to Man, are found in the 2nd Chapter of Genesis, 
vs. 6-7. 

It will be noted therein that in the Moon Period, "there 
went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of 
the ground.'' 

"And the Lord God formed Man of the dust of the ground, 
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Mart- 
became a living souh * 

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Herein we note two principal factors : 

First — The primal sign of motion or visible activity in our 
Microcosm, and 

Second — The "OPERATION" of producing (or transmut- 
ing) intelligent organic Matter from unintelligent — first inor- 
ganic, then organic — Matter. 

BOTH ARE DIFFERENT STAGES IN THE PROCESS 
OF TRANSMUTATION. 

Just as in mathematics we transmute a given figure by 
raising it to a higher power, so in seeking to learn how to 
transmute the figure of our Microcosm, raising its powers to 
the highest expansion, it is well for us first to seek the formula 
thru the transmutation of the lowest types in the lowest stream 
of life — the Mineral. 

In doing so, let us keep in mind that ALL minerals and 
metals are but differentiated types of the LOWEST of all 
forms of life ; the first tangible kingdom or sphere wherein 
evolution can be truthfully said to begin. As such they have 
absolutely no value instrinsically in a cosmic sense, and their 
only value — an unreal one — is that developed by their relative 
attractiveness, the difficulty of extracting them, and other at- 
tributes which appeal to the sensual and animal nature of 
Man in his present undeveloped state of consciousness and 
judgment. 

Therefore the neophyte who seeks the secrets of transmu- 
tation solely for material ends, has not attained a plane one 
whit removed from that of his equally unenlightened fellows; 
and the Creative Hierarchs — those cosmic alchemists — not 
having been able to transmute his animal powers into spiritual 
potencies, he will fail to solve any of the problems of trans- 
mutation in the lower forms. 

We are told that whoso seeks shall find. Many infer that 
this saying applies only to spiritual truths. Not so, for we find 
no limitations m connection with it. Instead, we are told m 
the 16th vs. II Genesis, **And the Lord God commanded the 
Man, saying — of every tree of the Garden thou mayest freely 
eat." 

At this time, however, we find from our knowledge of the 
mental and spiritual condition of Man that he was in a state 
of innocence of the opposite polarities of so-called right and 
wrong, therefore it was perfectly right for him to indulge all 
the desires to which at that time he was subject. But in the 
disobedience referred to in the next passage, his mental states 

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became subject to the results of misapplied good, called error, 
or wrong, evil and sin, and he lost his earlier prerogatives. 

Thus until we regain that original state, amplified and 
raised to a higher power by well-assimilated experience,^ we 
can expect no results if we pry into the secrets of an exacting 
Nature for purely selfish or material ends. 

It cannot be presented too vigorously to students that in 
our attempt to enter upon this study, our hands and hearts 
must be clean, and we must do so with all material motives 
set aside. We must also set aside all preconceived ideas from 
the many lines of thot promulgated today, many of them mere 
fads. 

Let no reader of this book suppose for a moment that it is 
the purpose of these chapters to instruct him how to raise 
gold from base metals. Whether or not this ever has been 
done or ever can be done is a problem each must decide and 
demonstrate (if he can) to his own satisfaction. It is, how- 
ever, the study upon which Rosicrucianism is based, and it 
is our purpose herein merely to point out some significant 
clues which, if properly meditated upon, may lead the seeker 
to the right path. 

Attention is called to the eleventh and twelfth verses of 
the second chapter of Genesis — 

^'The name of the first is Pison, that is it which compasseth 
the whole land of Havilah. WHERE THERE IS MUCH 

GOLD." 

Is it not strange that an undoubtedly inspired writer in 
giving a statement of the Creation of the World — the most 
momentous topic on which any writer could engage — should 
so far forget his sublime work as to announce gleefully that 
in the first place actually named in sacred history, there was 
much gold there? 

But note, the next paragraph informs us — ''AND THE 

GOLD OF THAT LAND IS GOOD.^' 

Surely, if this is to be the keynote of the Biblical state- 
ments, independent thinkers are perfectly justified in accusing 
Christians of having the most materialistic views of heaven 
and spiritual states. 

As before, we turn to occultism for the key. In our occult 
dictionary we find the definition of gold to be — spiritually and 
alchemically — ''an emblem of perfection upon the terrestrial 
plane, as the Sun is the symbol of perfection upon the super- 
terrestrial plane. There is historical evidence that the ancient 
Rosicrucians possessed the power to transmute base metals 



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into ^old, by alchemical means, by causing it to gro'w out of 
its own *seed,' and it is claimed that persons possessing such 
power exist even today. ' 

In the tenth verse of Genesis II we are told that a river 
went out of Eden to water the Garden, and thence it was 
parted into four heads. 

Physically speaking, these four rivers embraced the lands 
wherein Man first emerged as a true bi-humana or homo. Oc- 
cultly speaking, these four heads are none other than the four 
elements upon which all visible creation is based. And each 
viewpoint corroborates the other. But most significant of all, 
the name of the first comprises much Gold — the symbol of 
terrestrial perfection. So the Genesiac writer is not so far 
astray as might at first have been thought. 

Now note that of our four elements or conditions, one is 
Gold, certainly not under the aspects by which we now recog- 
nize that metal, but occultly and scientifically speaking, con- 
taining all the factors which, under proper conditions, may 
produce gold as we know it. 

But more than this, occultly in these four elements we find 
the component parts — nucleolus, nucleus, protoplasm, and the 
membrana pellucida of our cell; in other words, the Pineal 
Gland of our planet — the ""seed" referred to m our definition 
of Gold and our original cosmic atom. 

And as with the planet, so with Man. In him also we find 
these same elements and he is instructed to look within him- 
self, for he shall never find what he seeks without him. 

Our problem therefore is, to find that substance within 
man, withm which is the epitome of terrestrial perfection, 
creative power, and the basis of all compound structures, from 
the simple state of which, by raising to higher powers, we can 
create as we will and what we will. 

It IS not the purpose of this book to furnish an interesting 
literary essay, or an entertaining hour. On the contrary, clues 
have been pointed out, so that the student, by carefully fol- 
lowing them, may arrive at a definite starting point on this 
all-inspiring subject, the great purpose of the Fraternity. 

Careful and exhaustive study of the Biblical writings is 
urged, and deep meditation, in the sincere hope that many 
thereby may enter upon the right path and attain the ''illu- 
mination of the higher spheres.' 

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THE THREE MIGHTY ONES, 

Spninx, 
Cheops, 
Stonehenge. 



After weighing carefully the claims to equal distinction of 
notable temples, mounds, aboriginal remains and ruins, it is 
believed that the impartial critic will agree that of them all 
the Sphinx, the Great Pyramid, and Stonehenge, remain as 
much of a mystery today as ever before. 

True it IS, that each of them has been weighed, measured, 
surveyed, photographed, and their intimate acquaintance made 
in every possible manner, yet their secret is still preserved, 
and their true origin is still a matter of scientific speculation 
to the vast majority. 

Every few years we are gravely informed that the "Secret 
of the Sphinx'' has been discovered, only to find that once 
again we have been aroused by a false alarm. 

An Egyptology which can ascribe no loftier purpose to the 
creators and leaders of the glorious Egyptian civilization than 
m the case of the Sphinx a portrait bust, and m the case of the 
Pyramid a tomb, is, to say the least, hardly worthy of passing 
attention. Egyptian Pharaohs were undoubtedly human, but 
their whole history attests the fact that whatever they did was 
for a distinct purpose, far beyond a mere matter of personal 
vanity. 

The tomb m the Great Pyramid has never been known to 
be other than empty. Its Ground Floor, Middle (or Queen's 
Chamber), Grand Gallery, tortuous winding passage, and 
Sanctum Sanctorum or King's Chamber, suggest much more 
than a mere tomb, to *'those who know." Many a neophyte 
has been '*brot to Light" therein and its work of initiation is 
far from ended. 

Aside, however, from their importance as monuments of 
u past wisdom and ritual, they stand today unrivalled as monu- 
mental symbols of scientific knowledge. As such they have a 
rightful place in this little treatise on symbology, and as such 
they will be briefly described. 

The Sphinx, while not so interesting as the Pyramid from 
a strictly scientific standpoint of mathematical data, is never- 
theless the greatest of this great trio. 

Tradition has it, that Mary laid^the tired Jesus between the 
paws of the Sphinx to sleep. 

Robert Hichens says (Egypt and its Monuments) ''It is, I 
think, one of the most astounding of acts in the history of man, 
that a man was able to contain withm his mind, to conceive, 
the conception of the Sphinx. That he could carry it out in the 
stone is amazing. But how much more amazing it is that 
before there was the Sphinx he was able to see it with his imag- 



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ination ! One may say impertinent things that are true about 
it. . . . All this does not matter at all. What does matter is 
that into the conception and execution of the Sphinx has been 
poured a supreme imaginative power. He who created it 
looked beyond Egypt, beyond the life of Man. He grasped 
the conception of Eternity, and realized the nothingness of 
Time, and he rendered it m stone. 

I can imagine the most determined atheist looking at the 
Sphinx and, in a flash, not merely believing, but feeling that 
he had before him proof of the life of the soul beyond the 
grave. . . . Always as you return to the Sphinx you wonder 
at it more, you adore more strangely its repose, you steep 
yourself more intimately in the aloof peace that seems to eman- 
ate from it as light emanates from the sun. And as you look 
on it at last perhaps you understand the infinite ; you under- 
stand where is the bourne to which the finite flows with all 
its greatness, as the great Nile flows from beyond Victoria 
Nyanza to the sea.'' 

Hoary with antiquity, its origin was a mystery even to the 
Egyptians of the Middle Empire, and we can search the pages 
of history in vain for data of value. Occultism claims much 
knowledge of a true character regarding the Sphinx and Pyra- 
mid, but we take occasion at this point to emphasize the fact 
that legitimate, sane occultism does not countenance the absurd 
claims of an age of over a hundred thousand years for either 
the Sphinx or Pyramid. 




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THE GREAT PYRAMID 

Tkis great monument has been so often described tkat 
repetition here would serve no good purpose. In lieu, we snail 
give merely a few figures to show its mathematical importance, 
and to demonstrate the wisdom of its builders. We cannot 
bring ourselves to believe that such wonderful mathematical 
and geometrical science would be by chance incorporated into 
a structure ^vhose only purpose was to serve as a tomb. 
Base line nearly one-sixth of a mile long. 
Built to practically absolute proportion. 
Solves the squaring of the circle. 

Earth's weight in tons, 5,272,600,000,000,000,000,000. 
Pyramid's weight in tons, 5,272,600. 
Pyramid inch, 1/500,000,000 part of earth's polar diameter. 

giving us our modern linear inch. 
Height, 5,819 inches; multiplied by a thousand million inches 

gives 91,840,000, the distance to the Sun in miles. 
Sum of the four sides of the base, 36,526 inches; allowing 100 

inches for each day in the year, gives us 365% days, the 

exact number m the year. 
Length of diagonal of base, 12,934 inches; sum of two, 25,869 

or an inch for every year in the Sidereal Year. 
Age variously given as from 2170 B.C. to 250,000 B.C.; the 

latter figures are absurd. It is, however, logical to ascribe 

a greater age than 2170 B.C. Three most logical dates of 

foundation, 2170, 27, 970, or 53,770 B.C. 
ALWAYS found to be orientated true north and south. 
Exactly placed over the geographical center of land and water 

distribution of the earth. 
Temperature of King's Chamber taken as the mean from which 

are taken all our standard thermometric measurements. 
Cubic contents of the sarcophagus or coffer in King's Chamber 

give us our standard for weights and measures, liquid and 

dry. 
Herodotus states that 1,000,000 men were required to build it, 

and Didorus Siculus agrees with Pliny that over 360,000 

men were at w^ork upon it for 20 years. 
Grand Gallery 28 feet high by 157 long. 

Monoliths on step courses 2,300,000, each averaging 2^ tons. 
At noon meridian casts no shadow. 

These cosmic measurements built into the Great Pyramid 
attest the knowledge of the ancients concerning truths which 
the modern world asserts to be its own special discoveries. 

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From the initiations whick occurred in this vast building 
came the origin of the legend of Hiram Abif perpetuated under 
the allegorical story of the building of King Solomon's Temple. 







DIAGRAM SHOWING SECTION, ANGLES, O R I E N T AT I O N , A N D THE SQUARING OF THE 
CIRCLE" AS DEMONSTRATED BY ITS GEOMETRICAL PROPORTIONS. 

THE SPHINX 

The sphinx is the symbol to modern occultists of the ancient 
wisdom and spiritual culture of the Egyptians. It played an 
important part in the administration of the civil government 
as well. Its origin is contemporaneous with the advent of the 
human species into the Nile Valley, and its secret has to do 
with that advent — whence the entering peoples came, who they 
were, and the means whereby they were led to it. 

Its human head, animal body, rocky base, and (formerly) 
floral (lotus) embellishments in front suggest to the discern- 
ing, meanings which at once place this great monument right- 
fully within the pale of symbology on a ^titanic scale. 

It has been intimately associated with the ART of the 
Rosicrucian Fraternity, which fact makes it impossible to give 
further details on the printed page. 



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THE GREAT SPHINX — GIZEH I r nfils 

MARPERO ASCRIBES IT TO THE GENERATIONS BEFORE MENA. CALLED SER- 
VANTS OP HORUS." HEWN FROM LIVING ROCK ON THE VERGE OF THE LIBYAN 
PLATEAU PAWS AND BREAST RESTORED 8Y THE PTOLEMIES AND CAESARS. 
HEAD-DRESS, NOSE, AND BEARD DESTROYED BY FANATICS. THE FACE IS 
STILL ONE OF POWER AND SELF-MASTERY. 
STELA OF THUTMOSE IV. 1420 B.C. BETWEEN THE PAWS. 



STONEHENGE 

Stonehenge was a Sun Temple of magnificent simplicity. 
It was Egyptian m its origin, which accounts for its presence 
or inclusion in this triad of monster symbols. 

Stonehenge was not a Druid Temple as has often been 
claimed, but was undoubtedly used by the Druids and many 
human sacrifices were beyond a doubt offered therein. 

The building of this great symbolic temple is credited to 
races of the Neolithic or New Stone Age, and observations of 
the Sun taken at Stonehenge in accordance with the aspects 
of the Temple's orientation indicate that it must have been 
built at least 1680 B.C., or 3,595 years ago. 

The group originally contained many monoliths weighing 
over seven tons each, some of which must have been brot 
overseas to England. 

The Stonehenge group consists of a circular earthwork 
300 feet in diameter, within which there is a circle of trilithons, 
an arrangement consisting of two upright stones with a third 
across their tops. There were thirty such trilithons in a circle 
100 feet m diameter. Inside this circle was a smaller one of 
blue stones, not native to British soil. Within this was a 
horseshoe of five huge trilithons containing ten monoliths, and 
withm it was an inner horseshoe of blue stones. The open 
part of the horseshoe faces the sunrise at the summer solstice, 
the longest day of the year. 

Beyond the circle a great monolith standing on the axis of 
the horseshoe, marks the point at which a spectator centrally 
placed withm the horseshoe would see the sunrise at the sol- 
stice. On the circumference of the outer earth circle is the 
"Slaughter Stone." A fine recumbent stone across the axis 
near the central curve of the horseshoe is called the Altar 
Stone. The stones comprising the outer circle and the outer 
horseshoe are called the *'Sarsens. ' The diagram will further 
show the symbolic arrangements and purpose of the group. 

The lower photograph. No. 3, shows some of the traces 
of the progress of the Egyptian builders from Egypt to Britain. 
The scene is at Carnac (note the name), France, and is pre- 
historic. They are on the uplands of Morbihan and the 
avenues are orientated in such a way as to point to a very 
close connection with Stonehenge and Egyptian rums. Brit- 
tany is replete with megalithic remains, having over 600 
dolmens and over 800 isolated menhirs. The largest, at Loch- 
mariaquer, is 67 feet high and weighs no less than 342 tons. 

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I fjf ('III Ln'A'c Phi>;, \ © by Underwood & Underwood 
1,2 THE STONEHENGE GROUP 
3 RUINS AT CARNAC, FRANCE 




DIAGRAM AND PLAN OF THE STONEHENGE GROUP, 

SHOWING OUTER AND INNER CIRCUES OF TRILI- 

THONS, THE ALTAR AND SOLAR AXIS. 




D/AQ/?AM SHOm/^<j /iLL THE 
STONES. ^/725^ /5©£'/f 
FLWOE/e^ PETR/E. 



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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE ONE. 



These symbols illustrate four distinct classes : Early geo- 
metrical types still used by Rosicrucians and m fact more or 
less by all occult students ; true nature types used to express 
the special attributes popularly ascribed to each by common 
usag'e of long standing and persistence ; conventionalized forms 
of true nature types such as may be found m unlimited quantity 
from the Alaskan totem poles to the ruins of Nineveh ; and 
true nature types used proper or conventionalized as the ex- 
pression of static truths. 

The geometrical types shown at the top of Plate One show 
a marked analogy to the astronomical and astrological symbols 
shown m Plate Three, and bear witness to the close bond and 
organic connection between Astral and Astrological science. 

These geometrical and nature symbols take the student 
back to the very beginning of idea or thot expression in con- 
crete form. They will be found in cuneiform and hieroglyphic 
forms of writing and can be easily identified in all alphabets 
from the Phoenecian texts, thru Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and 
Anglo-Saxon up to the present day. 

Geometrical symbology was used largely in the hieratic 
writings and reached its ultimate development during the 
mediaeval period when the persecutions of ecclesiasticism 
made it necessary to communicate important truths or newly 
discovered laws thru the mediumship of a hidden, concealed, 
or occult style of writing. 

The animal forms are self-explanatory. The Tree was the 
principal object of veneration of the ancient cult of tree worship 
which prevailed thruout early times, many times in connection 
with other and stronger religious cults. The use of sacred 
groves, sacred to Diana and other deities, during the Roman 
sway IS well known, and the very object or principle it repre- 
sents — fecundity, birth, evolution — gave rise to and stimulated 
the sexual orgies which took place amongst their secluded 
retreats at stated periods of the year. 

The ''Jesse Tree' or tree of David, used to indicate the 
alleged genealogy of Jesus, is perpetuated today in ecclesiasti- 
cal art and usage and had its origin in the ancient cult of tree 
worship which prevailed thruout early times, often in con- 

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nection with other and stronger religious cults. The use of 
conventionalized trees in symbolism has been wide-spread 
thruout all ages and finds another counterpart today in so-called 
heraldic or genealogical trees. 

The following figures will show still other geometrical sym- 
bols which have played important parts in occult science for 
mar^y ages and further show the application of the triangles m 
depicting the projection of Microcosmos from Macrocosmos. 





3UDDHI3T 



SHLELD OF DAVID 

OR 
SEALOF5OL0M0N" 




WT2AJ3D-3FDOT 
PENTALPHA 




OF THE 
FOITR Ei:E!yCENT3. 



}!U^SOC0S>P[03 



DBAGON5 HEAD 




Mxcsacosnos 



DRAGON3 TAIL 



The columnar ornament is a figure from the standard 
Masonic monitors showing the adaptation of a true nature 
series to purely symbolical delineations, applied to useful dec- 
orative and constructive purposes at the same time. 




THE CHAPITEESWERE ORNAKEWTED 

WITH LEAVER OBXUvVWORK.iTET- 

WORK AKD GHAIN5 OP POVISGRAH- 

ATE3, JDENOTING. PS ACE, UNIT^ 

AND PL^ENTV 

THE LILY- FROfi /rs EXmEME WHITE - 

NESS. AS WELL AS THE RET/ REDS/ TUA- 

TIONS /N WHICH IT GROWS, DEMOTES 

PEACE] 

THE TTiJTWOEK- ERO/^ THE /NT/MATB 

COAIA/ECTIOM OF ALL ITS PARTS. UNTTY, 

AND THE 

POlOJGEANATli, /9?c?// TFEEXU- 

BBPANCE OF ITS SEED- PteNT^. " 



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PLA-XH) 1 





? ^ ^ 



^PECIMEiSTiS OF SEOKETRICAX. ^5YMBOI^ Uv3ED BY EARUT 
BOSICRUCIAN-vS A^ U>riT3 IN AORE COMPLEX FieUKEvS. 




DOVE- PEACE LION- n3TREN6TH 



OWL-WIsSDOM FOX-CUNN1N6. 



TBUE JMATUBE TYPED U5ED AS ^YM:D0L.S. 






TRUE NATUJ3E TYPE^S U3ED A5 TOTEM ^YMBOLvS. 



MAN 



LION- 



EAGfLE 



OX 







aVMBOE^ OF THE FOUK EVAN"SELI5T6. 
TRUE NATUEE TYPE>3, WITH ADDITIONAL PHALLIC 
SIGNIFICANCE 




THE TREE 

TRUE l^TURE TYPE 

SHDVN NATURAL AND IN" ONE OF ITS 
CONVENTIOMAU2ED K)RM5 THE TREE 
WAS A>I OBJECT OF WORSHIP m THE 
ANCIENT CULT OF Ti3EE W0E3HIP AND 
CONTINUED SO THRU THE TIME OF USE 
OF SACRED GROVES UPTD THE BAOCHA- 
NALIA OF ROME. THE TREE 15 THE MO- 
TIF OF THE ,SO CALLED "JE53E TREE 
50 MUCH USED EVEN TODA^f IN EC- 
CLK3LA3T1CAL ART AND EMBSODEKY 
IT HAS AN INTIMATE ASSOCIA- 
TION Av^ITH THE PRINCIPLED OF 
2EK "WOEvSHIP. 




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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE TWO. 



We show herewith the development of the cross from the 
earliest times to the forms now in use. No attempt has been 
made to illustrate the manifold artistic and decorative ampli- 
fications, but solely to show those differentiations which in- 
clude important features of interest to occult and other 
students. 

Owing to the prevalence of Christian ethics, the cross has 
come to be commonly accepted as the emblem of execution 
of a transgressor against Roman law ; and as a result, the 
magical symbol of some fancied salvation of the human race 
from a state of sin about which it knows really nothing and 
which originated m legend and mythos. 






CHINESE CR03S 



EUMC IEI5H. CELTIC. 



A CURIOUS FDRM 
OF 50- CALLED SWAS- 
TIKA CR03^, DAT- 
ING FROM THE ^^0- 
LITHIG PERIOD 
FOUND AT NAQADA 
ON A CLAV SEAL 



As a matter of fact the cross belongs to every land, nation, 
race and tongue. It is the earliest, simplest, and undoubtedly 
the first form of concrete expression. It was the principal 
symbol used in the first, oldest and greatest world religion — 
the astronomical — from which all subsequent religions have 
developed. It w^as used m the second great world religion — 
the Phallic or Sex Worship — for deep symbolic purposes. It 
was the object of veneration during the third world system — 
that of Hero Worship ; the fourth or Tree Worship, and could 
hardly escape being perpetuated in all the forms of ethical 
religious systems which succeeded. Buddhist, Confucian, Zoro- 
astrian, and Christian, alike claim it as their principal religious 
emblem and it is a salient example of the truth that the sim- 
plest geometrical forms express the deepest, broadest and 
most widespread doctrines. 

To the Rosicrucian, the cross contains no element of sec- 
tarianism, nor does it represent to him any special religious 
system. It stands for mighty truths relating to Man's exist- 
ence prior to mortal birth, during mortal life, and after physical 
death; his involution, evolution and development. A more 



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PLATE 2 
THE CR033 — its Z)m/'£:LOJ^M£:N-T. 



■^\<l'4c^ 




^ JL 




:PKi>iy5:VAX, 



rQUILATERjfliL LATIN" 



^\7 1^ n5^ 



/^ 



ST. AtTDEEWa KALTA 





roVRFOLD MV3TrCI5M 

TEX/TONIC 



^ 



TAU 



st.jokn's 



c^ 



6KEEK 




'ROSY CROSS CRUXyU^5ATA 8 POINTED BUDDHIST CHRI<3T MONOGRAM CUBIC 





if ^ 




7 



:bvzan-time 



CELTIC 



TEE FOIL 



>3rGNATA 

ADAPTED NATURE 5YMBOL5. 






THIS GKOUP OF SYMBOLS 
HAS :BEE]Nr USED FKOM RE- ,( ^ 
MOTEST TIMES TO TYP- ^i^'', ==- 
IFV THE KESUE'RECTIOIT'^^ ^ l' 
OB CGITTINUXTV OF LIF£. 



I '1 



EGYPTIAN 
r^OTTJS - 
CONVENTIONAL 



TILIr: 



EABJBTT 

GKAPES AJNTD "WHEAT 
EMBLEKATIC OF THE 
BREAD AIND WLNTE, USED 
II\r THE EUCHARIST. 



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complete statement regarding its aspects to Rosicrucians may 
not be given outside the College Adytum, but needless to say, 
the old legend of Constantine embodying the now famous 
motto, ''In Hoc Signo Vinces,' has a value and significance 
which may not be over-estimated. The greatest miracle the 
>vorld has ever witnessed was the transformation of the em- 
blem of a malefactor's execution into the spiritual emblem of 
one of the mightiest world powers — the Roman Empire. 

The Nature types in Plate Two are examples of nature 
forms adapted to poetic, or imaginative symbology and are too 
well known to require further amplification. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE THREE. 

This comprehensive exhibit of signs used in astronomical 
and astrological science reveals one specially notable fact. — 
the geometrical basis of their individual construction. 

These signs are of extreme antiquity, and have changed but 
little since the days of the Egyptians, Chaldees, and Hindus, 
as may be seen by the following group of Buddhist planetary 
signs. 



^ @ 



^ 



3 ® 



5 4i 3 2 1 6 7 

5ATURN JUPITER MAR3 VENU3 MERCURY UUNA SOL 

BUC30H/\ 

CeoooH) 

Another salient feature which will be readily noted is the 
use of a given set of signs for more than one purpose. Thus 
planetary colors, days of the week, and planets are indicated 
by exactly the same signs, while the Zodiacal signs can be 
grouped to exhibit the great truth of Involution and Evolution 
m the ancient manner shown by the following diagram known 
as EzekieFs Wheel: 



T«K^c/? (m 



KAGK 0G0>3M:0S 






a-^ 9 lo ii 
lyixcRocosMos 



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PLAT E 3 
ASTRONOMICAL c/2a'A^TROL06ICAL >5I6]Sr>5 

dXDd^lLPV 

CONJUNCTION SEXTILE QUADSAVJSS OPPOSITION PARALLEL SEMI-SEXTLLE 

^ODAQ 5q 

SEMI-3QUARE QUINTILE 5QUA3SE TKINE OILSQUI- QUADRATE BI-QUINTILE. 

ZODIACAL n3I6N^ 



AEIEJ5 XAURU5 GEMJNI GANCEE LEO VIKGO LIBRA 30DKP10 3MG11 CAPRI AOIAR. HXiJ^ 
/ J^ORTHEEN )( ^OUTHEJdJV ) 



PLANETAR-Y COLORE 

O (L cf JJ 2|. Q V) 

VELLCW -WHITE BED 3BOWN BLUE GREEU GMV 

PLANETAR"^ riAVO OF THE "WEEK 

h O (L cf $ ^ $ 

SATURN" SUKT MOOX 1CAR,3 MEBCUB^ JTJPITEE VENUS 

5ATUEDAY SUNDAY MOTDj^^V TUE5EAY WEDJJE5DAY THUB^Ilfliy FEIDAV 

PLANETARY ^le^^ 

NEPTUNE UEAm;y(/</-^JCy^/) SATcSsN JUPITEK >IAI30 

„ Q a J> ® 

SUN VENUS >ffiRCUBV MOON EARTH 

EVOLUT ION and INVOLUTION ». UNIVEE5E 

'f -A.>3CEJsri5T2sr<3 ^ P013srT OF ^ X)B:,3C;E3srx>r2<it3 f 

^^ equilibrium: "^ 

KA5CULIJVE "r* m c^ =^ ^ ^i^i^ MOVE'JiBLEJ T* ZB =£1= 'Ws 

EEMINIIfE \i ^ 7TJ? in, }y 3€ J'JdUIEMyZ £5 % de 

EiEEy^ T' c/? ^ :^juB2d:E;jv E c/? trp 

EAJ?TH:ir t5 TTJJ 1^ I>OKBLU-30J)/IX> ^"^^rviS^Yzd ^ 

yWJdl^ E =^ ^5^52i^ EQUIIfOCTIAE T> and =^i= 



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These signs are also classified as Masculine, Feminine, 
Fire, Earth, Air and Water, Movable, Fruitful, Barren, Double 
Bodied, Equinoctial, and Tropical signs ; characterizations 
which enable skillful astrologers accurately to determine im- 
portant features of the horoscope. 

We do not attempt to give herein signs commonly used in 
commercial life, such as typographical, musical, monetary, etc., 
all of which can be found in any dictionary, nor do we show 
such symbols as confront us every day in the familiar barber s 
pole, the alternating spiral bands of red and white, which 
anciently indicated the barber's duty as a surgeon or blood- 
letter. Neither is it of importance to students of symbology 
to trace the usage of such symbols as the pawnbroker's sign, 
or three golden balls, which came to be adopted as the sign of 
the trade when the Lombard merchants settled in England 
and are simply the three yellow effigies, byzants or gold coins 
laid upon a sable field as an heraldic device, but later expanded 
into balls for the purpose of attracting greater attention. 

We will note some oddities however, namely, the duplication 
of signs in usage observed above. The same sign used to de- 
note ''sextile'' is also the sign of a ''fixed star' * and with other 
astronomical symbols is used in musical notation. The sign ^ 
is believed to have been originally the sign of Jupiter. It was 
placed at the top of a medical formula in order to propitiate 
the king of the gods towards support of the prescription. This 
same sign l^ is also used in ecclesiastical symbology to denote 
the word ''response' in the ritual rubrics. The sign of the 
cross IS of course familiar and will be noted as the earth sign. 

Another sign of ecclesiastical usage is the ij' denoting 
"versicle" and bears a close relation to astronomical formulae, 
from which as a matter of fact all ecclesiastical forms origin- 
ated. Some curious signs will be noted, such as ? for 
Ceres, $ for Pallas, ? for Juno, and fi for Vesta. 
A comet is indicated thus ^ . Signs of notation are in part 
from the Greek alphabet ; thus ^ indicates mean distance, 
^ celestial latitude, D diameter, ^ declination, A distance, 
^ longitude, and the old familiar cross + North, while /^ 
stands for mean daily motion. 

Botanical signs are interesting thus"|5 represents an un- 
dershrub,^ a shrub, 5 ^ large shrub, 5 » ^^^^^ and ® a 
monocarpus plant. Medical signs are usually a puzzle to the 
uninitiated, thus § indicates ounce, Sss % ounce, 3iss 1^2 
scruple, etc. 

All these signs, it will be seen, are of astrological origin. 

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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE FOUR. 



Tke symbols shown on this plate represent some of the 
principal figures from the great world system of Phallic Wor- 
ship which prevailed for upwards of three thousand years, and 
vestiges or persistencies of which will be found in practically 
every religion extant today. Necessarily it is a subject which 
under our present system of ethics must be treated of with 
great caution and in presenting these illustrations there is 
every possible desire to avoid causing offence. 

All the great world religions have retained sex references 
and interpretations m their theology and it is impossible to 
approach the contemplation of Deity or Man without taking 
into consideration those means by which visible organic life 
comes into manifestation. 

Even today, we see such sects as the Adamites, Doukho- 
bours, and many others endeavoring to practice principles and 
tenets founded entirely on the ethics of sex. The develop- 
ment of clothing and costume and other means of concealment 
of the figure makes any reference to sex principles border 
closely upon the suggestive and often furnishes pabulum for 
the prurient minded. 

Nevertheless, we cannot avoid the observation of vestiges 
of the old sex worship m our study of any system of theology, 
ancient or modern, any more than we can avoid discussion of 
reproductive methods m our study of physiology, biology, or 
anthropology. 

We are not concerned in this treatise with an exegesis of 
the doctrines of ancient sex worship, but we publish these few 
well-chosen illustrations merely to complete our study of 
symbology. 

The examples shown are chosen from Egyptian, Hindu, 
Early Christian, Gnostic and Modern Christian sources, and 
will be found fairly representative. It will be seen that begin- 
ning with the hieroglyphs, these persistencies have come down 
to us thru many of our most common forms of usage and dec- 
orative art. The Fleur-de-lis and the Maypole are notable 
examples, and the custom of hanging the mistletoe and the 
indulgence in osculation beneath it, has a similar origin which 
may not be entered into more fully in this book. 

These examples of sex symbology are from temple sculp- 
tures and bas-reliefs, and will be recognized by travelers who 
have covered the oriental ground with any degree of com- 

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pleteness ; also from religious instruments and vestments, 
manuscript indentures, and old gems, of which our museums 
show a wide variety. 

Entire sects devoted to the active practice and observance 
of sex-worship still exist thruout Egypt, Palestine, Arabia and 
Hindustan. 




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PL^TE 4^ 



m 

GOOX3 FBtDAV 





TEUM 




TOETOXSE 



PHALLIC EMBLEMS FORM: 
SEVERAL OP THE IMFORXANT 
GLVPK3 OF THE EGYPTIANS 




A PHALLIC PERSISTENCE 
IK MOI3ERNEUCHARIS- 
TIC VE5TMEN"T>3. 



ABDANARr ISW^l 



EVOLUTION" OP THE EIELTB-DE-LIS 




THE PHALLIC vSYMBOLS 
AND EMBLEMS ON THIS 
PIATE HAVE BEEM SE- 
LECTED I3?,OM EGYPT- 
IAN. HINDU MEDIAEVAL 
AND CHRrSTlATTSGUB- 
CES AND MAY3E CON- 
SIDERED SUFFICIENT- 
LV REPE.ESENTATIVE. 



THE MAYPOLE 

iHCO-rc 
® 





XPE TyTCTOC 

Catacombs 



FROM A VERV FINE 

OLD GJsro^Trc 

SEAL ON aAEDONYX 

SYMBOLIC OF THE 
FEMININE POWER 
m NATURE 



MTHRAIC 



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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE FIVE. 

The cosmic or so-called ''All-Seeing'' Eye, and the Chalice 
(or Cup) with the Egg and Flame are a combination of sym- 
bols well known to Rosicrucians and to students of its philos- 
ophy both within and without the Order, altho the complete 
meaning of them cannot be known outside the Initiations of 
the First and Second Grades. 

These symbols are often used in combination with other 
symbols and many allusions and illustrations will be found in 
the bibliography of Rosicruciana. 

It is not permissible to give the full explanation of this 
symbol herein, but a broad, general statement for the informa- 
tion of the general reader will be found in ''An Outline of 
Occult Science,'' ^ 

"If we wish to draw a material, yet supersensible, picture 
of these human beings in the very beginning of the Earth's 
evolution, we must imagine a psychic ovoid, or egg, contained 
within the circumference of the earth, and enclosed on its 
lower surface as an acorn is by its cup. The substance of the 
cup, however, consists solely of heat or fire. The process of 
being enveloped by heat not only causes the kindling of life 
m human nature, but a change appears simultaneously in the 
astral body. In this body there becomes incorporated the first 
rough outline of what afterwards becomes the sentient soul. 
We may therefore say that man at this stage of his existence 
consists of the sentient soul, the astral body, the etheric body 
and the physical body, which latter is formed out of fire. In 
the astral body there surge up and down those spiritual beings 
who are connected with human existence. Man feels himself 
bound to the earth-body by the sentient soul. 

The chalice is the cosmic womb ; the egg, humanity nascent 
and in process of evolution ; the flames, primordial and ap- 
proximate heat — the vivifying life of the Absolute. 

For those who desire material for concentration and medi- 
tation, no better or more profitable subject exists. Concen- 
tration on the thots expresst above, utilizing this symbol as the 
thot picture, will produce results which will repay the seeker 
a thousandfold. Develop the symbol by deep meditation and 
concentration into its deeper significances and mayhap it will 
lead you — the reader — into fields where your feet have never 
thus far entered. Rudolf Sterner, Ph.D. 

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65 



THE SYMBOLOGY OF FRATERNALISM. 

Tkis work would not be complete without mention of the 
rather elaborate and extensive symbology of the multitude of 
fraternal and so-called secret orders thruout America and 
many parts of Europe. 

In deference to the relative degree of secrecy maintained 
or assumed by each Order, no attempt will be made to describe 
the symbols shown on the opposite page. In fact such proce- 
dure is not necessary, as all these symbols come under the 
head of what may be called '"'" Applied Symbology'' and are used 
extensively not only by secret societies but by institutions of 
learning as well. The devices used so much at present by 
hotels are largely based upon heraldic designs which, altho 
symbolic, do not come properly within the scope and purpose 
of this work. Heraldry, we may say in passing, is a science 
by itself, symbolic and allegoric in its expression. 

The several symbols shown opposite are so simple that 
their meaning may easily be discerned from their very nature, 
and the lessons they inculcate in the several societies which 
use them (many of them in common) may be readily imagined. 
The Square and Compasses, Holy Bible, Coffin, Sprig of 
Acacia, etc., are among the most common Masonic symbols, 
while the Three Links are quickly identified as belonging to 
the Odd Fellows. 

The Owl, Books, Lamp of Learning, etc., are used in vari- 
ous arrangements by schools and colleges ; the Cross in many 
developments is used by hundreds of religious societies, and 
also forms the almost invariable basis of the decorations of 
foreign orders. 

National emblems and symbols are usually taken from 
some feature which forms one of the principal types of a given 
country. All these symbols, while under the head of Applied 
Symbology, may be classified as belonging to the educational 
section of commercial symbolism and as such do not belong 
properly to the sphere of exact and true symbology. They are 
interesting, however, and serve a very useful purpose. 

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